gadabout
Example Sentences
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The author insists she is not a gadabout, though after the release of “Primates” she was snapped at any number of benefit galas.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2018
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
That afternoon the strolling couple encounter David’s college friend, Andrew, a sophisticated gadabout and ladies’ man who is immediately smitten with the human tidal wave from Turkestan.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2016
The queen looks serious and demure - nothing like the gadabout many took her to be.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2015
Then while the priest slipped a corporal into the burse and laid the latter on the veil, she went on quickly: 'By-the-bye, I forgot! that gadabout Vincent hasn't come.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola
