wild-and-woolly
Example Sentences
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“Babylon” doesn’t just long for the movie palaces of old, or even the wild-and-woolly world of silent film and the attendant bacchanalia the movie so riotously depicts.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2023
She was raised in the wild-and-woolly politics of Arkansas, the only daughter of former governor Mike Huckabee, and grew up to work on his two unsuccessful presidential campaigns.
From Washington Post • May 4, 2018
They actually had money, which made them far more credible than John Spano, who had used guile and bank fraud in his wild-and-woolly attempt to buy the Islanders a few years earlier.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2014
The Giants had their usual wild-and-woolly trip to victory over the Cowboys, but this is pretty much routine now, as Ohm Youngmisuk writes on ESPN.com.
From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2012
I shall certainly inspect your domesticated wild-and-woolly retreat.
From Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success against Odds by Francis, Stella M.
