gadabout
Example Sentences
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Every time someone would exit, Chip Py, photographer and Silver Spring gadabout, would shout, “What’d you order?”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023
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
She was briefly married to the tennis pro Andre Agassi, who portrayed her in “Open,” his 2009 autobiography, as a socially ambitious gadabout to his off-the-courts homebody.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
If I were a rich man's wife I'd be something more than a society gadabout.
From Youth Challenges by Clarence Budington Kelland
