devil-may-care

adj

Etymology

From attributive use of a shortened idiom of the original oath or expression: The devil may care, but I do not.

Definitions

  1. Carefree, reckless, irresponsible.

    • Not that this would have worried him much, anyway—he was a mighty free and easy, roving, devil-may-care sort of person.
    • Now, upon his whole person, from the crown of his unkempt head down to his broken, dusty boots, there yet clung that air of jaunty, devil-may-care rakishness.

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