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
Fred is a harum-scarum kind of player, someone who, to the untrained observer, tends to dash about with no obvious purpose.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2021
For all its harum-scarum reputation, fell running is easy.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2016
That made for harum-scarum early fare in which the Lions held their own with the Premier League team.
From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2013
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
