Thesaurus / devil-may-care
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I do not care very much how you censor or select the reading and talking and thinking of the schoolboy or schoolgirl.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSAnd this summer it seemed to her that she never would be able to take proper care of her nestful of children.
THE TALE OF GRANDFATHER MOLEARTHUR SCOTT BAILEYPolavieja, as everybody knew, was the chosen executive of the friars, whose only care was to secure their own position.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANThus was the man left entirely to the devil, not even his life being reserved, as in the case of Job.
SOLOMON AND SOLOMONIC LITERATUREMONCURE DANIEL CONWAYHe desired his secretary to go to the devil, but, thinking better of it, he recalled him as he reached the door.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIOn this account, great care should be taken to provide well-drained positions.
HOW TO KNOW THE FERNSS. LEONARD BASTINYou never cared—you were too proud to care; and when I spoke to you about my fault, you did n't even know what I meant.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESHe really seems to care almost nothing for his piano-playing or for his piano compositions.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYBernard was uncomfortable enough not to care to be mocked; but he felt even more sorry that Gordon should be.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESHe shall give his mind to turn up furrows, and his care is to give the kine fodder.
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JUNE 19, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO DEVIL-MAY-CARE
- adventurous
- audacious
- bold
- brash
- daring
- determined
- devil-may-care
- fiery
- foolhardy
- frenzied
- furious
- harebrained
- harum-scarum
- hasty
- headlong
- headstrong
- heedless
- hotheaded
- ill-advised
- ill-considered
- immature
- impetuous
- improvident
- imprudent
- impulsive
- incautious
- indiscreet
- injudicious
- insuppressible
- irrational
- jumping to conclusions
- madcap
- overhasty
- passionate
- precipitant
- precipitate
- premature
- reckless
- slapdash
- temerarious
- thoughtless
- unguarded
- unthinking
- unwary
- venturesome
- venturous
- wild
- capricious
- changeable
- devil-may-care
- extravagant
- fanciful
- fickle
- fitful
- fluctuating
- free
- frivolous
- heedless
- hot and cold
- immoderate
- inconstant
- intemperate
- lavish
- outrageous
- prodigal
- profuse
- rash
- reckless
- spendthrift
- spoiled
- thriftless
- unfettered
- unreserved
- unrestrained
- up and down
- variable
- volatile
- wasteful
- whimsical
- wild
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