happy-go-lucky
trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
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Well, about as happy-go-lucky a track as a track about the suffocating pressures of marriage and family can be.
Beyonce’s New “7/11” and “Ring Off” Will Give You Reason to Live (And Dance) | Kevin Fallon | November 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI am pretty happy-go-lucky in general, so that is also a similarity.
He played Brandt, the happy-go-lucky assistant/boy Friday to millionaire Jeffrey Lebowski (David Huddleston).
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Best Performances: ‘Boogie Nights,’ ‘Capote,’ and More | Marlow Stern | February 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMeredith Kercher, a bright and beautiful 21-year-old from Leeds, was enjoying the happy-go-lucky life of an exchange student.
“She was seemingly a happy-go-lucky girl,” the neighbor told The Daily Beast.
NY Couple Not Terrorists, Say Cops, Just Rich Kids With Drug Habits | Michael Daly, Lizzie Crocker | January 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
On all other points it becomes a fair war risk to presume upon their happy-go-lucky behaviour.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonThey are not all French—these happy-go-lucky fellows, who live for the day and let the morrow slide.
The Real Latin Quarter | F. Berkeley SmithIt is administered in a happy-go-lucky manner, which amuses at the same time that it annoys.
Spanish Life in Town and Country | L. Higgin and Eugne E. StreetAt the other end of the social scale in this world of workers is the happy-go-lucky family.
The Leaven in a Great City | Lillian William BettsAnd so on, till there were never such comfortable, easy-going, happy-go-lucky people in the world.
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British Dictionary definitions for happy-go-lucky
carefree or easy-going
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