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scot-free

/skot-free/US // ˈskɒtˈfri //

无所事事,无忧无虑,无人问津,无所事事的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : completely free from harm, restraint, punishment, or obligation: The driver of the car escaped from the accident scot-free. The judge let the defendant off scot-free.

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Examples

  • In other words, the free thinker defending freedom of thought.

  • Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.

  • The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.

  • Cambodia, with its seemingly free press, is also a haven for foreign journalists.

  • In other words, the free speech exhibited by the folks at Charlie Hebdo was not virtuous—until there was a body count.

  • What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?

  • It seemed to free her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her.

  • If we can free this State of Yankees, we will accomplish more than your armies down south have.

  • The voice of the orator peculiarly should be free from studied effects, and responsive to motive.

  • Above all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army in the midst of peace and among a free people.