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Meanings of blase in английском

Very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.

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        Uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence.

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              Examples for "worldly"
              Examples for "worldly"
              1
              Nor do I use the word prosperity in its mere worldly sense.
              Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
              2
              But still lays claim to worldly pleasure, does not tell the truth.
              The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights. Vol. 1
              3
              The food and drink on offer at The Houghton Hotel remains other-worldly.
              The South African
              4
              The worldly-wise warnings are after all in the interests of true friendship.
              Friendship
              5
              It was his conception of the ideal in worldly-asopposed to spiritual-life
              The Book-Hunter at Home

              Blase.

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                      Usage of blase in английском
                      1
                      The public has become somewhat blase about the importance of national agreements.
                      The Irish Times
                      2
                      But the rest of it trailed off into the old blase tone.
                      Constance Dunlap
                      3
                      Peter was a little more blase about the idea of home ownership.
                      Dying for Dinner (A Cooking Class Mystery)
                      4
                      It's staggeringly easy to become both blase and cynical about the Mini.
                      The Irish Times
                      5
                      But after a while, even she got blase about what they saw.
                      Bittersweet
                      6
                      I may sound blase about this, but that's only because I am.
                      The Irish Times
                      7
                      Writer records remarks of a blase couple sitting at a ringside table.
                      The new yorker
                      8
                      Dull-eyed, blase, frayed by the social whirl, worn out, pulseless, all of them.
                      Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3
                      9
                      I will be, probably, bald by then, and a little blase.
                      A Set of Six
                      10
                      The day he gets blase about playing for his country will never dawn.
                      The Guardian
                      11
                      Then blase travelers lolling in their deck chairs will gaze about them and snort:
                      Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and i...
                      12
                      We tend to become a little bit blase about seeing floods on the news.
                      BBC
                      13
                      The Hired Retainer examined the blase birds with a wooden expression on his face.
                      Love Among the Chickens
                      14
                      She appeared very blase in all her desperate young beauty.
                      Ma Pettengill
                      15
                      Even in a world grown blase about miscarriages of justice, the scale is stunning.
                      The Guardian
                      16
                      He was blase about personally delivering the President's Daily Brief.
                      Wired
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