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ikahime (108 words)
appears in these lists:
fun things, by Emera
tez's Words, by tez
Francophile, by mjbrej
bouma-tastic, by kad
elle's Words, by elle
fncll's Words, by fncll
rduke's Words, by rduke
soph2's Words, by soph2
Odessa's Words, by Odessa
Kalopsia, by lepidopteran
party girl, by chesquita
Reading Reading, by yarb
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similar to nonchalance
similar to nonchalance
Motivated by insouciance, the
Despatch Clerk idly amuses himself
correcting the grosser solecisms
committed by his superiors to
print in the monthly house magazine (called
Info-Flo)...
- Peter Reading, Concord, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981
"When Mr. O'Rourke set out into the world after a youthful Maoist phase (it was, after all, the '60s) there was an element of novelty to his insouciance, and his beliefs, like the larger movement of which he was a part, constituted their own kind of insurgency."