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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
freewheeling
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Brinkley made his comments during a freewheeling discussion with several colleagues.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
freewheeling

freewheeling \freewheeling\ adj. acting heedless of consequences; acting without controls, external or internal; as, freewheeling foolishness.

Syn: careless, irresponsible, reckless.

Wiktionary
freewheeling

vb. (present participle of freewheel English)

WordNet
freewheeling
  1. adj. free of restraints or rules; "freewheeling foolishness"; "the versatility of his poetic freewheeling style"

  2. cheerfully irresponsible; "carefree with his money"; "freewheeling urban youths"; "had a harum-scarum youth" [syn: carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy]

Wikipedia
Freewheeling (film)

Freewheeling is a 2000 Italian comedy film written, directed and starred by Vincenzo Salemme.

Usage examples of "freewheeling".

Tick tick tick and off I went and soon as I turned the corner wheee freewheeling away down the hill round the lane by the back of the houses in I went da-dan!

Stateside club for World War II fighter pilots, to its freewheeling terror tactics of the early sixties, to its absurd flirtation with the hippie scene, to its ultimate search for a legitimate role in the contemporary world of organized crime.

Not quite as raffish as Greenwich Village in its heyday, nor as freewheeling as the East Village during the Sixties, SoHo is a yeasty warren of streets, unexpected alleyways, and old two- to five-story brick buildings.

It was a diplomatic answer to conceal his resentment of the admiration Ty had shown toward the freewheeling entrepreneur.

Under Byrnes s flamboyant guidance the detectives in the bureau became known as the Immortals and they dramatically reduced the level of crime in a city as freewheeling back then as the Wild West.

Hambleton, freewheeling his mountain bike down the sloping track to the Mandel farmhouse, tyres slipping dangerously on the damp moss and loose limestone.

And when we look at journalism in Victorian England, we find it to be a freewheeling, sensationalistic business in which truth and restraint were often sacrificed in service of a big story.

True to the freewheeling, gather-no-moss, cannie lifestyle, Giggly Jane planned to use every crumb of it to trade up for better blasters and bigger knives.

PUCKY the Mousebeaver from the planet Vagabond meets up with a freewheeling traveller of the spacelanes and all hullabaloo breaks loose!

She was like the perfect fourth-grade teacher, a woman whose natural authority did not inhibit a sense of humor that, in its sly appearances, hinted at the existence of a private life more raucous and freewheeling than could be revealed in the public one.

He was accustomed to the freewheeling con­versations that passed for business meetings at Rarities Unlimited.