informality

Example Sentences

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Trainor said the stigma against facial hair as unkempt and dirty is fading, calling it part of a broader trend of “greater informality in dress and grooming and speech.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 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

Forty years ago, Danny Meyer opened Union Square Cafe in Manhattan with a combination of informality and refinement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

While sharing similar tenets like low-slung horizontality, natural materials and warm informality, some incorporate elements of Colonial or Spanish architecture, others take on a bit of Swiss Chalet.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025

Volpe’s informality with his students is a way of relating that some teachers at the school do not believe they could maintain without losing authority.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove