informality

Example Sentences

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That easy-going, free-flowing approach is all over the record – whose stories of love and loss are conveyed with an easy informality, like your best friend spilling their secrets.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

"Resilient growth and stable unemployment figures should not distract us from the deeper reality: hundreds of millions of workers remain trapped in poverty, informality, and exclusion," ILO chief Gilbert Houngbo said in a statement.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

An active participant in proceedings, he at times asks questions of witnesses himself, and is known for occasional informality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

But from the moment he was elected in 2013, Pope Francis came with an informality and a smile that put the people he met at their ease.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2025

Everyone, meanwhile, appears to be blending into a classless crowd, shedding the showiest kinds of high-status clothes in favor of a jeans-and-sweatsuit informality.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times