[
UK
/ɪnsˈaʊʃiənt/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈsusjənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈsusjənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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marked by blithe unconcern
was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner
an utterly insouciant financial policy
an elegantly insouciant manner
showed a casual disregard for cold weather
drove his car with nonchalant abandon
an ability to interest casual students
How To Use insouciant In A Sentence
- She occasionally is insubordinate and is always insouciant.
- Because, as an author, I believe that kind of insouciant self-confidence builds a more enduring bond. Undefined
- What an insouciant sprite, a slippered marvel outside the combative gymnast Gareth. Dragon dreams of Barry John, Gareth Edwards and springtime in Paris | Frank Keating
- I laughed so much with both surprise and delight that I gladly relinquished the bread to gabbling beaks and they went on their way to steam-roller another 'insouciant' picnicker. Ame soeur - French Word-A-Day
- There's a wonderful cover shot to the 1958 album Legrand Jazz, with pianist-composer Michel Legrand wearing an expression of insouciant expectation, Gauloise at the corner of his mouth, indolently summoning invisible sidemen to action. This week's new live music
- an elegantly insouciant manner
- Allegretto was an insouciant confection - played with vigor and bravado.
- She was slinky in a short black skirt with ridiculously high heels -- nosebleed heels -- and she moved across the stage in a kind of insouciant shimmy. Robert Rodi: Booty (Re)Call With Typhanie Monique
- But it was rough even at the dawn of the new century when the Strokes emerged from the Lower East Side read: Dwight School with their post-punk guitars and biscuit-tin drums to capture a city's insouciant attitude and inveigle the rest of the country with it. Disco Donors, Punk Pioneers
- Things improved with their swift, insouciant diabolo act. Times, Sunday Times