free-and-easiness

And again there was a free-and-easiness about the man — something superfluous and out of place.

The Witch, and other stories 2004

Yet there were limits, she reflected, to free-and-easiness: “... many pritty things shuffled together” do better spoken than in a letter.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

There were amusing attempts to bring about a practical reconciliation between the free-and-easiness of Republican notions and the respect due to a sovereign who reigns by “the will of the people” as well as by “the grace of God,” but eventually the tact of the king made everything go smoothly.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Some later critics, on the contrary, hold that the novelist has given us stage-dames with heavy graces and a bizarre free-and-easiness as being the nearest equivalent to aristocratic nonchalance.

Balzac 2003

It was with Miss Price now that Mr. Ramsay rode and walked and talked, -- Miss Price, whose free-and-easiness, vapid chatter, artificiality, and sentimentalism contrasted unpleasantly with Bijou's frankness and sincerity.

Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Various

Their free-and-easiness can never be better exemplified than in the old anecdote told of so many people, from an ex-prince of France, downward; viz., the prince having ordered a hack cab, was standing at the door of the hotel, smoking his cigar, and waiting for its arrival.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

Some later critics, on the contrary, hold that the novelist has given us stage-dames with heavy graces and a bizarre free-and-easiness as being the nearest equivalent to aristocratic nonchalance.

Balzac Frederick Lawton

In days gone by, lured by reports of America's lawless free-and-easiness, Swinnerton says he craved to visit us.

Nonsenseorship G. G. [Editor] Putnam 1915

Some later critics, on the contrary, hold that the novelist has given us stage-dames with heavy graces and a bizarre free-and-easiness as being the nearest equivalent to aristocratic nonchalance.

Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910

Discreetly aloof, he observed, in passing, the complete free-and-easiness of the modern maiden with her modern cavalier; personalities flying; likewise legs and arms; a banter-wrangle interlude over a tennis-racquet; flight and pursuit of the offending maiden, punctuated with shrieks, culminating in collapse and undignified surrender: while a pair of club peons -- also discreetly aloof -- exchanged remarks whose import would have enraged the unsuspecting pair.

Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Maud Diver 1906