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Blase

adjective

Very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world. Synonym: worldly. "The benefits of his worldly wisdom"

Uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence. Synonym: bored. "A petulant blase air" , "The bored gaze of the successful film star"

Nonchalantly unconcerned.

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"Blase" Quotes from Famous Books

... watched her attentively through many long evenings. At first, she had seemed to him what she really was, a strong and beautiful woman, but the desire to know her never troubled him. She possessed nothing to recommend her in the eyes of a blase man, and yet he returned to the Circus, allured by he knew not what, importuned by ...

— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... taken my two distinctly blase daughters to see a popular melodrama. The great audience that packed the theater to the roof went wild, and my young ladies, infected in spite of themselves with the same enthusiasm, gave evidences of a quite ordinary ...

— The "Goldfish" • Arthur Train

... fairest pass the day in the Corso, and gallant young gentlemen think it worth while to dress elaborately for a few hours of harmless and spirituelle intrigue. A society that enjoys a holiday so thoroughly has something in it better than the blase cynicism of more civilized capitals. These young fellows talk like the lovers of the old romances. I have never heard prettier periods of devotion than from some gentle savage, stretched out on the front seat of a landau under the peering eyes of his lady, safe in his disguise, if not self-betrayed, ...

— Castilian Days • John Hay

... weapons, the author's design is not ill-founded; for the marvellous has never been carried to a more whimsical and ludicrous extent." The reviewer had probably read the work through from one paper cover to the other. It was in fact too short to bore the most blase of his kind, consisting of but forty-nine small octavo pages. The second edition, which is in the British Museum, bears the following title; "Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns ...

— The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen • Rudolph Erich Raspe

... to announce some good news, but the thought has overtaken me that it will only add to your severity towards me. I fancy myself six months hence almost a stranger to you. Yes, you are too clever, and I too experienced,—too blase, if you like,—for either of us to deceive the other. Your end is attained without its costing you more than a few ...

— Bureaucracy • Honore de Balzac

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