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Devil-may-care

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Adjective

1. carefree, devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy

cheerfully irresponsible

Example Sentences:
'carefree with his money'
'freewheeling urban youths'
'had a harum-scarum youth'

2. devil-may-care, raffish, rakish

marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness

Example Sentences:
'a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Devil-may-care

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adjective
careless or reckless; happy-go-lucky
a devil-may-care attitude

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Devil-may-care

see synonyms of devil-may-care
adjective
reckless or careless; happy-go-lucky

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Devil-may-care

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adj.
1. Heedless of caution; reckless.
2. Jovial and rakish in manner.

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