sans souci
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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He threw me one of those sans souci smiles he’d been tossing at me since the beginning of the year.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
"Quand je serai là," he was wont to say, pointing to where his dogs were buried in the palace park, "je serai sans souci."
From William of Germany by Stanley Shaw
The look of indifference, the rather mocking smile, the sans souci, which are the chief characteristics of his face, altered.
From The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel by Elinor Glyn
The other two took no trouble with the pack-animals, but rode on in front, conversing sans souci, and in a somewhat jocular vein.
From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
"Let us seek, even while we live, to be sans souci, and as evidence that I will strive for this, this house shall be called 'Sans-Souci!'"
From Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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