noun
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the condition or quality of being informal
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an informal act
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Texts should be messy anyway, she adds, because the intimacy comes from informality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
There’s an informality built into the production, but it’s somewhat deceptive because the mercurial staging is extremely precise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
But there is another aspect of things worth exploring here, beyond the formality of Washington's requests, and the informality of the president both in private and in public.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
"Resilient growth and stable unemployment figures should not distract us from the deeper reality: hundreds of millions of workers remain trapped in poverty, informality, and exclusion," ILO chief Gilbert Houngbo said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
Aureliano Segundo helped her back to bed and with the same informality with which he always treated her, he asked her the meaning of her farewell.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
These inequities or biases in the substantive laws have over time become routine through the legal formalities and discretionary informalities of the procedural law.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2023
Field, now 97, said he and Locklin “shared certain informalities, that poetry shouldn’t be beyond human understanding and feelings.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
In the weeks after this meal, Momofuku Nishi was reviewed by critics who were pleased with its food and its no-tipping policy but unhappy with its brutal acoustics and other informalities.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2016
In informal speech a lot of us — even English teachers — lapse into all sorts of informalities.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2012
Our Majorcan home proved to be full of the most charming informalities.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
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