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free-and-easy

free-and-easy \free-and-easy\ adj.

  1. unconstrained and informal; as, an informal free-and-easy manner. Opposite of stiff, starchy, formal.

    Syn: casual.

  2. lacking normal concern for propriety.

    Syn: free-and-easy.

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free-and-easy

a. (alternative form of free and easy English)

WordNet
free-and-easy

adj. natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style" [syn: casual]

Usage examples of "free-and-easy".

Nothing in the two pockets of the book but some old advertisements cut out of newspapers, a lock of hair tied round with a dirty bit of ribbon, a circular letter about a loan society, and some copies of verses not likely to suit any company that was not of an extremely free-and-easy description.