happy-go-lucky
Example Sentences
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Next to the happy-go-lucky HarryWilliam always came off as the earnestsomewhat colder older brother who seemed to march solemnly toward the inevitable fate of being burdened by the crown.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 112026
“A happy-go-lucky young manneurodivergent — it practically described Aidan,” Katy says in a later interview.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 222025
“I was just a broke actorthen 2008 happened,” says Garciawhose happy-go-lucky demeanor instantly seems to wash away.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 32025
In their viewthe very fact that a Black woman and a white football coach can run together as the happy-go-lucky“normal” choice for voters makes its own kind of radical statement.
From Slate • Aug. 212024
He had always been the happy-go-lucky oneready to take things as they came; she had been the driven onethe ambitious onethe planner.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
