That unkempt, devil-may-care greasy, heroin rocker look. From Wordnik.com. [amishboy Diary Entry] Reference
These things don ` t happen spontaneously, devil-may-care. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2008] Reference
What a jaunty, ugly, devil-may-care set of fellows they were!. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
His face was set into a cynical, devil-may-care type of half smile. From Wordnik.com. [Dancing with Clara]
Rollicking, devil-may-care, the whaling song went on through long verses. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
There was a rakish, devil-may-care note in his voice that filled her with. From Wordnik.com. [The Splendid Folly] Reference
He is often funny, even devil-may-care, and at the same time a little sad. From Wordnik.com. [What These Eyes Have Seen] Reference
It was young Marc Dupre, and his devil-may-care face was alert and smiling. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
But that devil-may-care attitude, that sense of fun, was nowhere to be found. From Wordnik.com. [Toby On Top] Reference
A long interruption since his last eruption was disguised, but devil-may-care. From Wordnik.com. [The Ballads of Richard Thompson] Reference
Mr. Fox alternates between his devil-may-care persona and role as paterfamilias. From Wordnik.com. [Cara Parks: Fantastic Mr. Fox: Wes Anderson and the Capers of Middle Age] Reference
Wells was the realest of deals, with his thumbprint devil-may-care stage swagger. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-Seven] Reference
Never was a gallant and devil-may-care sea-song sung so hopelessly without spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference
He could hear the happy, devil-may-care sound easily over the noise of the street. From Wordnik.com. [Annie, Get Your Guy & Messing Around With Max]
So it ` s not like it is just Nadya Suleman and these devil-may-care private nurses. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2009] Reference
Cap'n Helly the devil-may-care submariner was beached for the indeterminate duration. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
How can you not dig her devil-may-care attitude towards buttoning up military shirts. From Wordnik.com. [amishboy Diary Entry] Reference
The sporting aristocrat with his devil-may-care panache fascinated the rest of society. From Wordnik.com. ['Aristocrats'] Reference
Or was it sincere, a gesture of goodwill and openhearted, rakish, devil-may-care bonhomie?. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: Francophrenia: A Digest of New York's Epic James Franco Profile] Reference
The bachelor walked tall with a devil-may-care air; he was the pride and joy of the gender. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Lonelyhearts] Reference
Sure, there's an age angle, but there's also that devil-may-care insouciance they're hitting. From Wordnik.com. [Another Obama Ad Slams McCain Over Houses Gaffe] Reference
His dark blue eyes gleamed with a merry, devil-may-care expression which took Ken's fancy at once. From Wordnik.com. [On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles] Reference
The new king in motley arose; heedless, devil-may-care, very erect in his preposterously pointed shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
The build-up to the Olympics was fraught with devil-may-care smirks and a nearly congenial sort of fatalism. From Wordnik.com. [Chi Tung: What's Gold Got To Do With It: China's Post-Olympic Identity] Reference
She was proud of this handsome devil-may-care "type" of hers and her jealousy was something to see to believe. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
Ah! unbelievably care-free -- those old devil-may-care days when Brian had been content to work and laugh and quarrel!. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
One day our scouts made a splendid haul, bringing into camp that celebrated, devil-may-care animal, the war-correspondent. From Wordnik.com. [With Steyn and De Wet] Reference
Kangarooists drive engines much in the same way as they drive horses, or anything else -- a reckless, devil-may-care style. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
Without doubt he was a handsome man, and the bold, devil-may-care expression on his face did not make him the less attractive. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
There was none of the devil-may-care spirit that marks crews in the Scouting Force and separates them from the stodgy mass of the Line. From Wordnik.com. [A Question of Courage] Reference
The seemingly devil-may-care style made her a muse for designer Alexander Wang and sparked the currently popular "Model off Duty" look. From Wordnik.com. [A Model's Off-Duty Style] Reference
Now it was full of devil-may-care, as if he shrugged his shoulders at a loss at cards, and in that second it fell upon her standing in horror. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
'All right, sir,' said Hill, a jaunty, devil-may-care looking fellow, with a sallow, sickly face, evidently the result of excess and dissipation. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The barristers, for the most part, have a devil-may-care look, as if it mattered little to them, whether the Dreep-daily or Powhead's gentry shall carry the day. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
The bill for Brasilia was monstrous, but it didn't matter; these were bold, devil-may-care days when the nation was bristling with smokestacks, silos and hydroelectric dams. From Wordnik.com. [Skyline Sculptor] Reference
He had an easy, self-possessed manner, and a careless, devil-may-care way about him, that showed he had measured his powers, and was accustomed to "rough it" with the world. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
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