gadabout

Example Sentences

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Schoeffer is a gadabout, and he led the young couple over jebel and oued—hill and stream—in Morocco’s rugged backcountry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 13, 2018

That afternoon the strolling couple encounter David’s college friend, Andrew, a sophisticated gadabout and ladies’ man who is immediately smitten with the human tidal wave from Turkestan.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2016

The queen looks serious and demure - nothing like the gadabout many took her to be.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2015

Then Rebecca’s barely in her grave and that gadabout Maxim is littering the place up with some gold-digging floozy who thinks she can waltz right in and take over.

From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2015

"But she will be glad to go, and glad to come back; no one wants to stay in one place all her life, in these gadabout days," Mary answered.

From A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods by Marchant, Bessie