harum-scarum

How To Use harum-scarum In A Sentence

• had a harum-scarum youth
• And yet, he was just turned forty was clear-eyed, calm-hearted, hearty-pulsed, man-strong; and yet, his history, until he was thirty, had been harum-scarum and erratic to the superlative. CHAPTER IV
• Rob Hayles catapulted across our Olympic consciousness at the end of a harum-scarum event called the Madison.
• She had been running for four days now, a harum-scarum tumbling flight through passages and tunnels.
• Van Wyk's narrator, a harum-scarum, hard-drinking journalist called Scara Nhlabatsi, relishes all manner of rude jokes, bawdy abuse, malapropisms and puns and provides a slew of images of the vulgar excess of power.
• _Fatima_, the first swab, as I told you, got an ugly scrape in the leg that prevented him from moving; so when the second lieutenant was put in charge of the dhow to take her up to Zanzibar, I was the only responsible man the captain could think of to send cruising with the pinnace, as the middy was a harum-scarum youngster, who hadn't got thought enough, and neither the boatswain nor Chips could be taken away from their duties without perhaps the ship suffering. The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace
• It used to be more harum-scarum, but now people are a lot safer," he said. Workplace Fatalities Declined Last Year
• They may prefer to dive into a thrilling, suspenseful harum-scarum world when they read. My new secret boyfriend
• And rather a latration of yaps and yowls as a harum-scarum of dogs swept past. At Swim, Two Boys
• The courts affirmed this limited and narrow understanding until the New Deal, when Congress began to regulate harum-scarum and the Supreme Court inflated the clause into a general license for anything a majority happened to favor. The Constitutional Moment