devil-may-care

[ dev-uhl-mey-kair ]

adjective

1. reckless; careless; rollicking.

devil-may-care

adjective

1. careless or reckless; happy-go-lucky

   a devil-may-care attitude

Word History and Origins

Origin of devil-may-care¹

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

So, with that history, I just threw everything into it in a kind of devil-may-care way.

From Salon

For her, Gary constructs Ron, a dashing, swaggering fellow with devil-may-care insouciance and a hint of real danger.

From Los Angeles Times

In full bedroom afterglow, her devil-may-care performance peppered scatting and swinging jazz vocals through the song’s racier lyrics.

From New York Times

“It was this wash of devil-may-care, it’s-exciting-to-push-boundaries-or-just-have-no-boundaries, and women were less than,” Shaparak Khorsandi, an early peer of Brand’s on the comedy circuit, told me of the era that made him.

From New York Times

He was the man whose studied devil-may-care attitude became a lifestyle and a multimillion-dollar business — a connecting filament between the suburbs and the Florida Keys and, beyond them, the Caribbean.

From Seattle Times