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
So for a while, Prince Andrew was just Classic Royal, maybe a wastrel and a gadabout in peacetime, but a standup guy in a war.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2019
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
Caroline Copeland was a welcome omnipresence as choreographer and dancer in “Carnaval” and as a mute gadabout, Fulvio, in the Pergolesi, holding the stage with her antics before the performance and at intermission as well.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2017
One of the worst of Ulysses' troubles was, according to him, the numerous and lengthy sea-voyages which that Ithacan gadabout had to take.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 by William Chambers
