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

Then Rebecca’s barely in her grave and that gadabout Maxim is littering the place up with some gold-digging floozy who thinks she can waltz right in and take over.

From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2015

But here am I preaching away like any old gadabout, and you not as much as taken your bonnet off yet.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.