gadabout

Example Sentences

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She is, after all, the English-born, Oxford-educated former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Talk and The Daily Beast, as well as a prolific freelance writer, intermittent broadcaster, conference organizer and general gadabout.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2022

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

She never went calling, claiming vigorously that she was "no gadabout, she hoped."

From The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Hill, Grace Brooks