laisser-aller
or lais·sez-al·ler
[ le-sey-a-ley ]
nounFrench.
unchecked freedom or ease; unrestraint; looseness.
Origin of laisser-aller
1Literally, “to allow to go”
Words Nearby laisser-aller
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How to use laisser-aller in a sentence
Nothing offends an eye accustomed to our native laisser aller so much as a well-brushed hat and shining boots.
Worldly Ways and Byways | Eliot GregorySo 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.
North America, Volume II (of 2) | Anthony TrollopeIts easy laisser-aller, its lax rule, and its indifference to regular forms were at an end.
Olive | Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)But who could have believed in such complete indifference, in the utter laisser-aller of such a life?
A Daughter of Eve | Honore de Balzac
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