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devil-may-care

/dev-uhl-mey-kair/US // ˈdɛv əl meɪˈkɛər //

恶人先告状,恶魔般的关怀,恶魔的关怀,恶作剧

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : reckless; careless; rollicking.

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Examples

  • Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.

  • He has wild swings between trying not to care about Lana and the baby, and being completely obsessed by it.

  • Who among Scalise's constituents could possibly care if he supported naming a post office for a black judge who died in 1988?

  • Haringey Council told The Daily Beast that the children had not been taken permanently into state care.

  • In these regions, men are now doing between 30 and 45 percent of the care work.

  • I do not care very much how you censor or select the reading and talking and thinking of the schoolboy or schoolgirl.

  • And this summer it seemed to her that she never would be able to take proper care of her nestful of children.

  • Polavieja, as everybody knew, was the chosen executive of the friars, whose only care was to secure their own position.

  • Thus was the man left entirely to the devil, not even his life being reserved, as in the case of Job.

  • He desired his secretary to go to the devil, but, thinking better of it, he recalled him as he reached the door.