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laisser-aller
[ le-sey-a-ley ]
noun
- unchecked freedom or ease; unrestraint; looseness.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of laisser-aller1
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Example Sentences
Nothing offends an eye accustomed to our native laisser aller so much as a well-brushed hat and shining boots.
So laisser aller is the cry of the age, a dead negation of thought and volition.
This was often mortifying to me, but I think I liked it better on the whole than the laisser-aller indifference of Washington.
Its easy laisser-aller, its lax rule, and its indifference to regular forms were at an end.
But who could have believed in such complete indifference, in the utter laisser-aller of such a life?
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