harum-scarum
Example Sentences
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The Maoris started the second-half in harum-scarum fashion, going down to 13 men when TK Howden and Bailyn Sullivan both committed yellow-card offences, but Scotland could only score five points in that 10-minute spell.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025
Fred is a harum-scarum kind of player, someone who, to the untrained observer, tends to dash about with no obvious purpose.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2021
This was the sort of harum-scarum and feisty affair that would have had Villa park heaving if fans had been present.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2020
Of Custer, killed two years later at the Little Bighorn, Grinnell would write that he “knew nothing about Indians and was anyhow a harum-scarum fellow.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2019
The now vigorous boy might go at his companions harum-scarum, with sword and buckler..
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
