What is "carefree"

Usage examples of "carefree".

Lasser with all the carefree and unruffled ease that only reached its airiest perfection with him when the corner was tightest and the odds were too astronomical to be worth brooding over.

When Dicky arrived he made every effort to look his youthful carefree self, but I guessed that the Deputy had given him a severe wigging about the Bizet crisis.

It was bad enough that the scandal sheets breathlessly painted him as a sinfully charming rakehell, a carefree despoiler of maidens and defiler of wives.

Dolley and young Lucy gave their mother all the assistance possible, but Dolley had her own household to manage, and Lucy at fourteen was a carefree, dreamy adolescent.

Was it really Aunt April with her soft hair dressed in fleecy Parisian curls, the carefree bite of autumn in her cheeks, her lilac-colored pelisse giving a lilylike delicacy to her spare frame rather than bluntly exposing it?

I watch as Aeneas slaughters the carefree Achaean twins, Orsilochus and Crethon.

Lyons, released from the Hardcase Detail upon his return from Palm Village, had immediately taken a ten-day vacation, most of which he spent with his wife and young son on a carefree motor trip along the Baja California peninsula.

There was a photo molded into the contours of the tray of a carefree young woman and the logo of Kool cigarettes.

Then the six-seater to the Cape: how aerodynamically carefree it was, how the baby plane was whisked up on the thermals, out over the boatless water.

Wrapped in an incredibly sumptuous gown of golden broidered emerald silk, with Ian's emerald and diamond necklace at her throat and her hair caught up in intricate curls at her crown, she felt carefree and calm.

He started to callout a warning to her, then realized it wasn't necessary-with carefree abandon she'd already gained the middle branches and was edging her way along toward the tree house.

When she had met him, Wolfer Martin D'Ambry had been a figure of mystery, but essentially a carefree sort, content to play his bagpipes and win friends among the genius loci of the wilder sites.

The door of this great banquet room was not large enough to accommodate Terrybubble, so Speedy exacted a promise from the dinoSaur to stay exactly where he was before joining the others, then, with the most carefree feeling he had enjoyed since leaving the earth, he sank down between Waddy and Bamboula in a chair an umbrella footman ceremoniously drew out for him.

They enjoyed a carefree period of growing up in a crèche, socializing with other children of their age, tended by a few loving volunteers and a great many efficient machines, learning the few things necessary for their life in the urban centers, taught by capsules or computers: the resources available to them and how to order them.

What kind of message will that send to our young people, who have volunteered to pass up waterslides and corndogs to help sick children deserving of a carefree week at camp?