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- s cheerfully irresponsible
had a harum-scarum youth - r in a wild or reckless manner
dashing harum-scarum all over the place
- They are pictures of a character acting not out of the dictates of a harum-scarum plot but because she is heeding the call of a vulnerable heart.
- Though the authors may not have intended them to be, their accounts are a revealing documentation of the harum-scarum behavior of the press under stress.
- Laughed out of his lethal scheme to set an airport on Governor's Island, right under the skyscraper windows of downtown Manhattan, the Little Flower, a harum-scarum War flyer on .