ADJECTIVE
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cheerfully irresponsible
had a harum-scarum youth
carefree with his money
freewheeling urban youths
How To Use happy-go-lucky In A Sentence
- I honestly feel bad for writing this, because maybe, just maybe, Walker and his band of happy-go-lucky good-time pals are actually the nicest people in the world and I'm being a jerk.
- And yet, there is a charm in his happy-go-lucky world - a world that doesn't need progress.
- I knew he was a happy-go-lucky person, but this was no way to fool around. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
- He really sinks his teeth into this roll, donning a slick, denture-filled smile, and a kind of happy-go-lucky, glazed look.
- PERLS: Well some of the things that they have in common that actually add years instead of subtracting those years would be that they tend to have a personality where they're low in one domain of personality testing called neuroticism, meaning that they have these personalities where they're happy-go-lucky, they have a good sense of humor, they're optimistic. CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2004
- Most people see him as a happy-go-lucky guy without a care in the world. The Sun
- His own happy-go-lucky attitude was a catalyst to Liz's lighthearted nature.
- That happy-go-lucky ethos of boarders remains so strong that some of its most talented stars refused to take part in these Olympics, claiming their creativity and freedom were threatened by an avalanche of rules.
- Less tightly wound and introspective than his brother, Harry prefers to present a raffish, happy-go-lucky attitude.
- Japanese pattern, and while the ivy that covered the Gothic ceiling trailed long tendrils of the palest and most delicate green, each leaf glossed as if it had been varnished, this unheroic-hero, this pantheistic-devotee, this heathenized-Christian, this half-happy-go-lucky æthestic Bohemian, lay upon his pillow, the incarnation of absolute repose. In the Footprints of the Padres