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
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
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
The now vigorous boy might go at his companions harum-scarum, with sword and buckler..
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
