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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

... of Frenchmen, in point of great intellectual endowments, was Benjamin Constant; but, blase at twenty, his life was only a prolonged wail, instead of a harvest of the great deeds which he was capable of accomplishing with ordinary diligence and self-control. He resolved upon doing so many things, which he never did, that people came to speak ...

— Self Help • Samuel Smiles

... principles of the system: 'Similia similibus!' If you have fever, redouble it; if you have smallpox, be inoculated with a triple dose. So far as you are concerned, you are a little used up and 'blase', as we all are in this Babylon of ours; have recourse, then, as a remedy, to the very excesses which have brought you into this state. Homoeopathize yourself morally. It may cure you, it may kill you; I wash my ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

Words linked to "Blase" : uninterested, unconcerned, sophisticated, worldly