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marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness
a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors -
cheerfully irresponsible
had a harum-scarum youth
carefree with his money
freewheeling urban youths
How To Use devil-may-care In A Sentence
- The approach requires a devil-may-care swagger, a thick skin and also thick-skinned editors, who seem to be in short supply.
- The housing market seems to be one of the reasons behind business owners ' devil-may-care attitude.
- Pearce's injury – he has since recovered and is back to riding on snow – was a jarring reminder of the dangers posed to these athletes who often market themselves as devil-may-care thrillseekers but know they make their living in a far more serious, and dangerous, profession. Sarah Burke Dead: Skier Dies After Accident During Training At Park City, Utah
- The approach requires a devil-may-care swagger, a thick skin and also thick-skinned editors, who seem to be in short supply.
- And there's a rhetorical whimsy reminiscent of some of Atkinson's earlier books, a devil-may-care gesturing at the novel's own fictionality, which can leave the characters threatening to float free of our trust in them. Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
- She says, addressing Miriam, “Rest assured, you're at the top of the tree of lace knitters now: and that attention to detail over grafting puts you ahead of me, as I get quite devil-may-care over these, having come from such long exposition to in-your-face baddish joins.” Archive 2009-05-01
- I'm starting to frighten myself, because I'm backsliding into my devil-may-care attitude.
- There's probably no more irksome character than the humble hyphen, and though I'd love to develop a devil-may-care attitude toward it (got the bugger right that time, I reckon!), my newest coinage is hyphenhate, so you can guess just how I feel after 39713 of them and still counting. Archive 2009-04-01
- I adopt a more devil-may-care attitude and haven't written a cookery book for four years.
- Omar is the most feared man on the mean streets of this version of Baltimore, mostly because of his facility with a shotgun and his general devil-may-care attitude. Marion Johnson: Where to Find Positive LGBT Characters in Pop Culture
