fancy-free

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Recent Examples of fancy-free Feeling light as a feather and fancy-free? USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024 Read the full Taurus Daily Horoscope Gemini (May 21 - June 21) Feeling light as a feather and fancy-free? USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fancy-free
Adjective
  • More unmarried couples have been starting families.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
  • Without Social Security, 41% of elderly unmarried women would fall below the poverty line.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • Defiant and determined to get back home on his own to his mother and grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, George encounters real danger as a distraught Rita tries to find her footloose son.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The footloose couple performed on the opening night of the Symphony of Dance tour in Melbourne, Fl.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • Erik ten Hag is still unattached more than six months after leaving Old Trafford, and that’s something of a recurring theme.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 12 May 2025
  • Cut all the ear shapes out, then glue the inner ear shape on top of the outer ear shape, leaving about 1 inch at the bottom unattached.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The unwed mother had made the painful decision to allow her child to be adopted.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2025
  • Entertainment & Arts ‘God Bless the U.S.A.’ singer Lee Greenwood recalls many inaugurations -- and singing for Donald Trump Jan. 20, 2017 She was born Bertha Louise Hable in Dallas in 1946 at a home for unwed mothers, given up for adoption and raised in an orphanage.
    Christie D’Zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Fancy-free.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancy-free. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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