harum-scarum

Example Sentences

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Fred is a harum-scarum kind of player, someone who, to the untrained observer, tends to dash about with no obvious purpose.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2021

This was the sort of harum-scarum and feisty affair that would have had Villa park heaving if fans had been present.

From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2020

Of Custer, killed two years later at the Little Bighorn, Grinnell would write that he “knew nothing about Indians and was anyhow a harum-scarum fellow.”

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2019

In the harum-scarum batting has been beautiful strokeplay, the off-drives of Bell and the clips through leg of Root, the innovation and aggression of Warner and the counter-attacking flays of Moeen Ali.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2015

The now vigorous boy might go at his companions harum-scarum, with sword and buckler..

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White