1 They blithely carried on chatting, ignoring the customers who were waiting to be served.

2 He seems blithely unaware of how much anger he's caused.

3 Your editorial blithely ignores the hard facts.

4 'Don't worry. I'll pay,' she said blithely.

5 He was blithely unaware of the trouble he'd caused.

6 'It'll be easy,' she said blithely.

7 He was blithely unaware of the trouble he had caused.

8 She blithely agreed to the contract without realising what its consequences would be.

9 He blithely ignored her protests and went on talking as if all were agreed between them.

10 Oh, no, she prayed silently, surely Peter hadn't blithely handed over one of the family heirlooms?

11 Even an observant hiker can walk blithely past one, and that has proved their best protection.

12 We repair to the kitchen and blithely set off the burglar alarm searching for the cat to cuddle.

13 My friends and their little daughter went splashing blithely in so I threw caution to the winds and followed.

14 Which is why a society that blithely accepts this included / excluded ledger is an unsafe society.

15 Analysts are blithely assuming they can keep rising.

16 She continued blithely on in spite of all difficulties.

17 Americans are both privacy-mad, yet blithely self-revealing online.

18 He appears blithely unaware of the disastrous effects of the new system.

19 But Egan Jeffers, a one-time curbside bootblack,[] blithely behaved as if he alone kept the airport solvent.

20 This grouping blithely tossed out Mr Thaksin when he got too big for his boots.

21 They blithely carried on chat, ignore the customers who were waiting to be served.

22 Alas, It'seems I was blithely going about it entirely the wrong way.

23 Republicans blithely shipped jobs for lower-middle-class Americans off to India.

24 You were Audrey's escort, yet you blithely left her stranded in the middle of the dance.

25 The mathematicians proceeded blithely and confidently to employ the new algebra.

26 He is blithely unaware of the trouble he have cause.

27 The City is no longer confident enough to pay blithely for a new trading system being developed by consultants at Arthur Andersen.

28 Those treaties accept the territorial boundaries of member states, yet the countries that sign them blithely ignore their undertakings.

29 As I reversed the car, I caught sight of her blithely telling all and sundry about the row.

30 Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to committing supposedly minor derelictions as a matter of course.

1 They blithely carried on chatting, ignoring the customers who were waiting to be served.

2 He seems blithely unaware of how much anger he's caused.

31 Small children, stiff as starfish in their snowsuits, toddle blithely inside the corral, unfazed by the reindeer stampede around them.

32 So Eric Schmidt, and other executives, blithely insisted that all was well.

33 You're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar De La Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns.

34 After coming up with this egregious fallacy, Bernoulli topped it by blithely assuming that every individual's marginal utility of money moves in the very same constant proportion, b.