laissez-faire

Example Sentences

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Burden’s family legacy was fractured by infidelity and a laissez faire attitude, at least in the public sphere, toward men behaving badly.

From Los Angeles Times

There’s a certain live-and-let-live, laissez faire quality to eating like this.

From Salon

And it’s because of this remoteness and laissez faire attitude that people also come here to dump dogs they no longer want.

From Los Angeles Times

So if you think about the crumbling of the laissez faire paradigm in the 1920s and the wake of World War I and the Great Depression, it wasn’t clear what would supersede.

From Seattle Times

That laissez faire approach is starting to change.

From Seattle Times