Bruce detected that what some might have seen as insouciance in Austin's carefree manner was a supreme self-confidence.

Her carefree manner belies a work ethic that would make John Calvin beam.

"He never, ever pushed me," she recalled of her father's carefree manner.

Jonathan spoke in a carefree, cheerful manner that Alfred found quite shocking.

He laughed, but the totally carefree manner of a week earlier had been undermined by wariness.

"To go for a hoon" can mean to travel or do something in a carefree manner.

For example, Harrison uses the present tense throughout the book in her conversational tone and carefree manner.

How could she have lived in such a carefree manner?

"It was worth a try," he said in his usual carefree manner.