Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Visibly relaxed or loose; not tense.
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- adjective US
relaxed ;laid back
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When Alex Rodriguez was outed as a past user, in 2009, he referred to the "loosey-goosey era" in which he was raised in the game.
NYT > Home Page By TYLER KEPNER 2011
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When Alex Rodriguez was outed as a past user, in 2009, he referred to the "loosey-goosey era" in which he was raised in the game.
NYT > Home Page By TYLER KEPNER 2011
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Its advocates describe it as a view that moral standards are grounded in social custom, varying from culture to culture, while its critics call it loosey-goosey moralism incapable of deciding that such institutions as slavery are wrong.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Its advocates describe it as a view that moral standards are grounded in social custom, varying from culture to culture, while its critics call it loosey-goosey moralism incapable of deciding that such institutions as slavery are wrong.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Mr. Mauss silk-screens reproductions of his own loosey-goosey drawings, and black-and-white photographs from a news release explains "his own personal archive," onto thin sheets of aluminum, and then bangs them into a semisculptural state.
Shock, Light Therapy With Life Thrown In Peter Plagens 2012
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No more "pick-a-pay" ARMs that were mass-marketed with loosey-goosey underwriting and negative amortization.
ARM is making comeback -- and could save arm and a leg Kenneth R. Harney 2011
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Maybe this is just the kind of loosey-goosey coach who should scare the bejeebers out of the Chicago Bears.
Playoffs? Playoffs? Pete Carroll answers a reporter's phone during press conference Cindy Boren 2011
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No more "pick-a-pay" ARMs that were mass-marketed with loosey-goosey underwriting and negative amortization.
ARM is making comeback -- and could save arm and a leg Kenneth R. Harney 2011
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I imagine all this talk about a "climate movement" or a "youth movement" can sound rather loosey-goosey to hardened, sophisticated politicos on the left.
Jamie Henn: As the World Burns: New Yorker examines Senate's climate fail Jamie Henn 2010
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Average final score on the exam was 3.199 (a “B” - I round down to make up for my loosey-goosey grading impulses).
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