free-swinging
[ free-swing-ing ]
adjective
recklessly daring in action or style: free-swinging stock market speculators.
Origin of free-swinging
1First recorded in 1945–50; free(wheeling) + swinging
Other words from free-swinging
- free-swinger, noun
Words Nearby free-swinging
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How to use free-swinging in a sentence
Can he avoid being knocked out by the free-swinging Newt Gingrich?
Is Mitt Romney Toast? Howard Kurtz and Michael Tomasky Debate | | December 12, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThe pendulum was a free swinging pendulum for 59 sec., and the increase of the arc could scarcely be detected.
He could not mistake that free-swinging, level, deliberate stride, with the head so finely up.
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