devil-may-care

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The Aubrey and Maturin are merchant cousins, devil-may-care Menedemos and intellectual Sostratos, who roam the Mediterranean looking for profit and girls, while avoiding storms, pirates and jealous husbands.

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

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  • The devil-may-care experimentation of young London was inspiring, almost terrifying at times. —  final fashion
  • With his southern drawl, scruffy leather jacket and devil-may-care attitude, Gabriel Knight was the dark prince of Sierra's point-and-click empire. —  Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today
  • Almost all of the earlier frames marked a devil-may-care aggression from Manan and a waiting game from Pankaj, who combined clever defensive play with potting that was precise, but at crucial points lacking the cold perfection of his semifinal rout of Alok Kumar. —  The Hindu - Front Page
  • The Aubrey and Maturin are merchant cousins, devil-may-care Menedemos and intellectual Sostratos, who roam the Mediterranean looking for profit and girls, while avoiding storms, pirates and jealous husbands. —  Stromata Blog
  • Dana Stevens finds "the world of Idlewild is so heterogeneous, so devil-may-care about shifts in mood and tone and genre, that it winds up feeling like six different movies elbowing for space on the same screen." —  GreenCine Daily
 

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  1. A sentence, the devil may care (sc. I don't), used as an adjective
 

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