laisser-aller

or lais·sez-al·ler

[ le-sey-a-ley ]

noun

, French.

1. unchecked freedom or ease; unrestraint; looseness.

Word History and Origins

Origin of laisser-aller¹

Literally, “to allow to go”

Example Sentences

Nothing offends an eye accustomed to our native laisser aller so much as a well-brushed hat and shining boots.

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So laisser aller is the cry of the age, a dead negation of thought and volition.

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This was often mortifying to me, but I think I liked it better on the whole than the laisser-aller indifference of Washington.

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Its easy laisser-aller, its lax rule, and its indifference to regular forms were at an end.

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But who could have believed in such complete indifference, in the utter laisser-aller of such a life?

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