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  • adjective Alternative spelling of blasé.

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Examples

  • Call me blase -- I do not mind, if by blase is meant the world-weariness, intellectual, artistic, sensational, which can come to a young man of thirty.

    CHAPTER VIII 2010

  • Call me blase -- I do not mind, if by blase is meant the world - weariness, intellectual, artistic, sensational, which can come to a young man of thirty.

    Chapter 8 1914

  • With billions of dollars at stake, perhaps "national security" is just plain blase.

    Boing Boing: December 29, 2002 - January 4, 2003 Archives 2002

  • Maybe you can live with that kind of blase, uncritical acceptance of whatever you feel or are taught by scripture and the church is "God" in your life, but I can't.

    You said it | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • I was getting kind of blase about it until we visited the shore of Fourth Lake, and the wind felt like spirits sucking out my life energy through the pores of my face.

    Making Light: Snowpocalypse Part Next 2009

  • They're the greatest kids, but they're kind of blase about the film.

    CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2007 2007

  • They're the greatest kids, but they're kind of blase about the film.

    CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2007 2007

  • Google wouldn't be Google with that kind of blase attitude -- and no one can challenge Google with that attitude either.

    Google Is A Very 1.0 Shopping Engine - Publishing 2.0 2006

  • BOB COLACELLO, "VANITY FAIR": Well, it was quite amusing actually to see all these sophisticated kind of blase New Yorkers normally suddenly when the prince and duchess appeared in the museum, everyone was jostling for position trying to get close to them and talk to them.

    CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2005 2005

  • Environmental Affairs for its "blase" attitude towards the transportation of 1,7 tons of radioactive plutonium around the country's coast by Japan.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

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