Example sentences for: anything-goes

How can you use “anything-goes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The gags in Office Space aren't anything-goes: They're rooted in what sociology professor Lynn S. Chaucer calls Sadomasochism in Everyday Life: The Dynamics of Power and Powerlessness (the title of her 1992 book).

  • There's an anything-goes quality to even studio pictures that suggests an impatience with old ways of telling stories--a desire to create a new syntax to capture a new kind of flickering consciousness.

  • Laissez-faire is now used to describe a variety of "anything-goes" regulatory regimes, whether in law or child-rearing.

  • Once on the bench, these judicial politicians (emboldened by their anything-goes common-law attitudes) will set about encoding the popular will into law, to the detriment of unpopular minorities.


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