devil-may-care

Example Sentences

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Devil-may-care Mathiot, a Portland, Ore. tugboat operator, was not really expecting Quicksilver to win the cup.

From Time Magazine Archive

Devil-may-care as ever, he spurned any such oxygen suit as Wiley Post wore, merely bundled up warmly, stuck an oxygen tube in his mouth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Devil-may-care was in her blood and he doubted if she knew the230 meaning of fear, but for evil he now sought in vain and wondered greatly because he had so misjudged her.

From The Orchard of Tears by Rohmer, Sax

He sang it with an assumption of a Devil-may-care voice, that made his face a thousand times more meagre and more thoughtful than ever.

From The Cricket on the Hearth by Williams, George Alfred