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Word of the Day for Friday, August 7, 2009insouciant \in-SOO-see-uhnt\, adjective: Marked by lighthearted unconcern or indifference; carefree; nonchalant. The insouciant gingerbread man skips through the pages with glee, until he meets his . . . demise at the end. They don't seem to care whether they become stars or not, and their irony . . . has a scoffing, insouciant feel. There's a Steely Dan-ish wit to the title track ("The truth itself is nothing but a gamble/It might or might not set you free"), but Peyroux tosses off the lines with an insouciant shrug of the shoulders. Insouciant is from the French, from in-, "not" + souciant, "caring," present participle of soucier, "to trouble," from Latin sollicitare, "to disturb," from sollicitus, "anxious." The noun form is insouciance. | |||||||||
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