gadabout

Example Sentences

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Mr. Belmondo was inundated with offers and tried to avoid being typecast as the likable gadabout.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2021

Schoeffer is a gadabout, and he led the young couple over jebel and oued—hill and stream—in Morocco’s rugged backcountry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 13, 2018

The queen looks serious and demure - nothing like the gadabout many took her to be.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2015

On “About a Boy,” David Walton plays Will, a gadabout who has an independent income but no job or a family, and works quite hard to keep it that way.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2014

"Well, spite of all I, or anybody could do, Miss Swaim takes my little gadabout this morning and makes off with it."

From The Reclaimers by McCarter, Margaret Hill