Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Heedless of caution; reckless.
- adj. Jovial and rakish in manner.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Reckless; careless.
Wiktionary
- adj. Carefree, reckless, irresponsible.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. cheerfully irresponsible.
- adj. marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. cheerfully irresponsible
- adj. marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness
Examples
“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.”
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“Armand, I succumb to your combination of wit, folksiness and “devil-may-care” nihilism.”
“That sort of devil-may-care attitude, how naughty they are.”
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“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.””
“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.”
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“He starts calling himself “Tony T, as in TNT, boom baby!” and becomes a devil-may-care stuntman.”
“The thought gave me a reckless, devil-may-care courage.”
““Women like a man with a sensitive side,” Nutz said, chewing a piece of hyena gristle that dangled out of his mouth, giving him a debonair, devil-may-care air.”
“Minutes earlier, the now businesslike Harris was in full devil-may-care Barney mode during a bar scene that was as rollicking between takes as it was during them.”
“I was in no position to care, and the following night I reprised my devil-may-care flouting of the rules by mixing a Dark 'n' Stormy with the delicious, chocolatey Kraken Black Spiced Rum.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘devil-may-care’.
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Hyphen Nation
Terms with multiple hyphens, such as rent-a-crowd. Not intended to be a see-how-many-words-one-can-string-together-with-hyphens-used-adjectively sort of list.
much-talked-of, vis-à-vis, tête-à-tête, rope-a-dope, will-o'-the-wisp, dick-a-tuesday, will-in-the-wisp, jack-o'-lantern, jack-with-a-lantern, ear-to-ear, whack-a-mole, no-man's-land and 205 more...
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queer decadence
decadent, sybaritic, effeminate, languid, dubious, happy-go-lucky, eccentric, bizarre, rantipole, devil-may-care, slaphappy, debauched and 8 more...
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Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Words from the songs of Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis
zugzwang, valhalla, montalvo, ishist, tritons, mosh, siam, llano del rio, protohuman, tumbleweeds, ludwigshafen, ballyhoos and 349 more...
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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edes's Words
table talk, tuneful, bestrewn, determinate fashion, unpretending, personage, duly impressed, shirring, caw, hatchet job, gummy, comely and 225 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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gaia, eviscerate, lament, ephemeral, urbane, blight, variant, schadenfreude, hubbub, iteration, feign, hobgoblin and 243 more...
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What the Dickens!
Words and phrases coined or made popular by Charles Dickens.
Sources: http://thewordmaven.wordpress.com...Scrooge, Pecksniffian, Pickwickian, Faginesque, Bumble, Dolly Varden, Uriah Heap, Dickensian, micawber, podsnappery, A-1, ain’t and 18 more...
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Fun phrases & Idioms2
deep-six, jump the gun, play hardball, race against time, slam dunk, blind-sided, rock the boat, cold hard cash, gravy train, monkey business, smell a rat, bang for the buck and 87 more...
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by night he scorches, as he burns by ...
sweltering, blistering, sultry, stormy, wandering, roving, devil-may-care
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