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devil-may-care

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dev·il-may-care (dvl-m-kâr)
adj.
1. Heedless of caution; reckless.
2. Jovial and rakish in manner.
devil-may-care
adj
careless or reckless; happy-go-lucky a devil-may-care attitude
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.devil-may-care - cheerfully irresponsible; "carefree with his money"; "freewheeling urban youths"; "had a harum-scarum youth"
happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy, carefree, freewheeling
irresponsible - showing lack of care for consequences; "behaved like an irresponsible idiot"; "hasty and irresponsible action"
2.devil-may-care - marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; "a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary Moore
raffish, rakish
unconventional - not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles"
devil-may-care
adjective happy-go-lucky, casual, careless, easy-going, reckless, unconcerned, flippant, nonchalant, heedless, insouciant his reckless, devil-may-care attitude to life
Translations
devil-may-care [ˈdevlmeɪˈkɛəʳ] ADJ → despreocupado; (= rash) → temerario, arriesgado
devil-may-care
adj → leichtsinnig, vollständig unbekümmert; he’s got a devil-may-care attitude to life → seine Lebenseinstellung ist „Nach mir die Sintflut“
devil-may-care [ˈdɛvlmeɪˈkɛəʳ] adj (attitude) → sprezzante
devil-may-care [ˈdɛvlmeɪˈkɛəʳ] adj (attitude) → sprezzante


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His soldiers formed a legion of devil-may-care fellows, perfectly undisciplined toward all but himself.
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
There was a short silence, after which Toby Crackit, seeming to abandon as hopeless any further effort to maintain his usual devil-may-care swagger, turned to Chitling and said,
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context
It by no means follows that because a man is a sexton, and constantly surrounded by the emblems of mortality, therefore he should be a morose and melancholy man; your undertakers are the merriest fellows in the world; and I once had the honour of being on intimate terms with a mute, who in private life, and off duty, was as comical and jocose a little fellow as ever chirped out a devil-may-care song, without a hitch in his memory, or drained off a good stiff glass without stopping for breath.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
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