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devil-may-care

[ dev-uhl-mey-kair ]

adjective

  1. reckless; careless; rollicking.


devil-may-care

adjective

  1. careless or reckless; happy-go-lucky

    a devil-may-care attitude

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of devil-may-care1

First recorded in 1785–95
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With dark blond hair and hazel eyes, Denise had a youthful beauty and hid her tough circumstances under a devil-may-care attitude.

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So, with that history, I just threw everything into it in a kind of devil-may-care way.

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For her, Gary constructs Ron, a dashing, swaggering fellow with devil-may-care insouciance and a hint of real danger.

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In full bedroom afterglow, her devil-may-care performance peppered scatting and swinging jazz vocals through the song’s racier lyrics.

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“It was this wash of devil-may-care, it’s-exciting-to-push-boundaries-or-just-have-no-boundaries, and women were less than,†Shaparak Khorsandi, an early peer of Brand’s on the comedy circuit, told me of the era that made him.

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