gadabout

Example Sentences

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Every time someone would exit, Chip Py, photographer and Silver Spring gadabout, would shout, “What’d you order?”

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2023

She is, after all, the English-born, Oxford-educated former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Talk and The Daily Beast, as well as a prolific freelance writer, intermittent broadcaster, conference organizer and general gadabout.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2022

So for a while, Prince Andrew was just Classic Royal, maybe a wastrel and a gadabout in peacetime, but a standup guy in a war.

From The Guardian • Nov. 18, 2019

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

"All the world thinks that I'm a gadabout, an idler, with no interest in existence, except the pleasure I can extract."

From The Angel of Terror by Wallace, Edgar