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Meanings of freewheeling in English
Cheerfully irresponsible.
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Examples for "carefree"
Examples for "carefree"
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For example, safety issues prevented them from walking carefree in their neighborhoods.
2
The July 1998 cover issue highlights Badu's earthy personality and carefree nature.
3
She couldn't remember ever looking or feeling that chic, young and carefree.
4
There were still questions that that happy, carefree woman would not answer.
5
How long had it been since he'd laughed in a carefree way?
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She was so damn tired, she was slaphappy.
2
If that sounds like the recipe for splashy, slaphappy music-making, nothing could be further from the actuality.
3
But don't get slaphappy just yet.
4
Fiction: Hysteria consistently supplies the abiding dynamic that fuels this slaphappy, melodramatic romp for more than 500 pages of contrived story telling.
1
School was back in, and the first few weeks were always harum-scarum.
2
Now, run along, Philip, and look after that harum-scarum nephew of yours.
3
And of how they looked & the harum-scarum things they did & said.
4
It might even be suspected that she liked the harum-scarum best after all.
5
Or is he one of these harum-scarum soldier of fortune sort of chaps?
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You've always been a happy-go-lucky type, never taking responsibility for anything, right?
2
I saw him before Christmas and he was his usual happy-go-lucky self.
3
A faction of happy-go-lucky do-gooders without a selfish bone in their bodies.
4
The happy-go-lucky days of childhood are not always what they seem.
5
Snowboarders tend to be younger and have a hard-partying, happy-go-lucky image.
1
A handsome, wicked, devil-may-care sort of fellow to whom nothing was sacred.
2
His eye was alight, his color coppery, his air swagger, devil-may-care, bacchanal.
3
Jug bands to us aren't a devil-may-care, bang-away-on-anything kind of deal.
4
A devil-may-care approach sounds like fun, but only if you can afford it!
5
Certainly the Australians we met were a cheerful, happy-go-lucky, devil-may-care crew.
Usage of freewheeling in English
1
The nature of Twitter's freewheeling stream makes it confusing for new users.
2
The days of freewheeling fortune-seekers striking out into the wilderness were over.
3
Trump's freewheeling campaign may be sowing the seeds of its own destruction.
4
They are likely to play very differently to Slavisa Jokanovic's freewheeling losers.
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In a freewheeling response, he said: Russia has no respect for our country.
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This club must have understood that freewheeling days are not guaranteed.
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The freewheeling news conferences on the homeward flight is the highlight.
8
We're not as freewheeling as we used to be, you know.
9
They made the current lot look like freewheeling entertainers by comparison.
10
Importantly, too, this is not a messy novel, despite its ostensibly freewheeling nature.
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Hans Peter Lindstrøm produces a freewheeling, floor-filling, all-killer-no-filler tune for the season ahead.
12
Dublin was a city very much like Glasgow: mercantile, freewheeling, and culturally open-ended.
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No team of salesmen ever had a more liberal, freewheeling brief.
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They didn't have enough editorial control over the inherently freewheeling format.
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The hung parliament and its freewheeling characters were a backing track of instability.
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But the musical scope is wider, tighter and much more freewheeling.
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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