Tom has a devil-may-care attitude to life.
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Devil-may-care
Synonyms for "devil-may-care" (101 found)
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Adjective(11 words)
Adjective(3 words)
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26 translations across 10 languages.
Finnish
4 entries- holtiton adj (carefree)
- huoleton adj (carefree)
- rämäpäinen adj (carefree)
- välinpitämätön adj (carefree)
French
1 entries- insouciant adj (carefree)
German
2 entries- leichtsinnig adj (carefree)
- nachlässig adj (carefree)
Indonesian
2 entries- masa bodoh adj (carefree)
- peduli setan adj (carefree)
Māori
1 entries- raukeke adj (carefree)
Polish
3 entries- beztroski adj (carefree)
- luzacki adj (carefree)
- niefrasobliwy adj (carefree)
Russian
4 entries- беззабо́тный adj (carefree)
- безрассу́дный adj (carefree)
- беспе́чный adj (carefree)
- бесшаба́шный adj (carefree)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- coma-co-dhiù adj (carefree)
Spanish
4 entries- arriesgado adj (carefree)
- despreocupado adj (carefree)
- irresponsable adj (carefree)
- temerario adj (carefree)
Swedish
2 entries- lättsinnig adj (carefree)
- sorgfri adj (carefree)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
This is the sort of witchery, not easily defined—but, by its votaries, pretty sensibly felt, in hunting the fox. The light-hearted, high-spirited stripling, when cigaring it careless to cover, with a kind of a knowing demi-devil-may-care twist of his beaver, receives in his transit a benison from every real friend of the chase he may chance to pass; and the airy, eager zeal of the youthful aspirant to rolls, tumbles, and the brush, will flush his memory with the frolic gayety of other days, and animate his mind with reflections most welcome to his heart.
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Not that this would have worried him much, anyway—he was a mighty free and easy, roving, devil-may-care sort of person.
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Now, upon his whole person, from the crown of his unkempt head down to his broken, dusty boots, there yet clung that air of jaunty, devil-may-care rakishness.
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