Synonyms for blase

Grammar : Adj

Spell : blah-zey, blah-zey; French bla-zey

Phonetic Transcription : blɑˈzeɪ, ˈblɑ zeɪ; French blaˈzeɪ

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Définition of blase

Origin : "bored from overindulgence," 1819, from French blasé, past participle of blaser "to satiate" (17c.), of unknown origin. Perhaps from Dutch blazen "to blow" (related to English blast), with a sense of "puffed up under the effects of drinking."

adj nonchalant

Example sentences :

This lofty and blase greeting can come from none other than Roland Barnette.
Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance

He's one of our blase ones; been in before, haven't you, Simson?
Extract from : « Saint's Progress » by John Galsworthy

Turning upon him in a blase of wrath and with unutterable loathing.
Extract from : « Theft » by Jack London

You are six-and-twenty years old; and as blase as a rake of sixty.
Extract from : « The History of Pendennis » by William Makepeace Thackeray

Perhaps it's the Spanish blood, or perhaps it's because she's so blase.
Extract from : « Ancestors » by Gertrude Atherton

In that large clear eye he could see nothing that his blase nature could understand as guile.
Extract from : « Sister Carrie » by Theodore Dreiser

To the surprise of the blase clerk, the well-known club man ran out of the hotel, dropping his hat in his excitement.
Extract from : « The Voice on the Wire » by Eustace Hale Ball

He had what Carley called the New York masculine face, blase and lined, with eyes that gleamed, yet had no fire.
Extract from : « The Call of the Canyon » by Zane Grey

Mrs. H. Oh, no, there would not—And so you were going to be virtuous and blase', were you?
Extract from : « The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition » by Rudyard Kipling

What cards and hazard are for blase Europe, cock-fighting is for the simple native of Manila.
Extract from : « Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II » by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

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