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
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
In the harum-scarum batting has been beautiful strokeplay, the off-drives of Bell and the clips through leg of Root, the innovation and aggression of Warner and the counter-attacking flays of Moeen Ali.
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2015
A body of knights would pick sides, so that there were twenty or thirty on either side, and then they would rush together harum-scarum.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
