How to Use fast and loose in a Sentence

fast and loose

adverb
  • Musk is a taskmaster who plays fast and loose with the rules.
    — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2022
  • For starters, someone might be fast and loose with the truth.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Decker is fast and loose with tonal shifts, with abrupt changes of scene.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Tesla is alone in playing things fast and loose.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 July 2016
  • This was a guy who changed his name multiple times and played fast and loose with the truth.
    — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 9 Feb. 2021
  • There's a fast and loose energy to the universe at this time.
    — Chicago Tribune, 6 Dec. 2022
  • But AstraZeneca cannot play fast and loose with the world’s trust.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2021
  • As a form, the personal essay plays fast and loose with the truth.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Carmakers play it fast and loose with body style terms nowadays.
    — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2017
  • Ethridge has always played fast and loose with the idea of the picture as document.
    — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2022
  • House of Guinness has played pretty fast and loose with the facts throughout these eight episodes.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Trump, for his part, says Schiff has been playing fast and loose with the nation’s secrets.
    — Massimo Calabresi, Time, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Are the lawyers acting like this because the White House as a whole plays it so fast and loose?
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Facebook got caught playing fast and loose with our personal data.
    — Fox News, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Many of these countries’ governments play fast and loose with their currencies.
    — Noam Cohen, WIRED, 19 June 2019
  • Team Herodotus is made up of bold synthesizers, and can sometimes play fast and loose with the sources.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 20 May 2022
  • Objects plays fast and loose with actual psychology and sense, but is a hell of a lot of fun along the way.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 2 July 2019
  • Today is not about the words or social media posts of a man who infamously plays fast and loose with the facts.
    — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Charlie is a rather strange 13-year-old who cuts off pigeon's heads and plays fast and loose with her nut allergy.
    — refinery29.com, 12 June 2018
  • The soundtrack is also pretty great, with a lot of ‘70s and ‘80s hits played fast and loose.
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 27 July 2018
  • Lawyers and accountants who look the other way when corporate clients play fast and loose, who even collude with them to skirt the law.
    — Robert Reich, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2018
  • These creations play fast and loose with the traditional varieties—but that doesn’t make the results less tasty.
    — Rodelio Aglibot, Bon Appetit, 30 Jan. 2017
  • No one wants fast and loose operators around the important matter of money.
    — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 3 July 2026
  • But playing fast and loose while recording his own songs has sometimes proven difficult for Worsham.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The brave thing my grandfather did was to play it fast and loose with the IRS as an accountant.
    — Emily Meg Weinstein, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The comedy was situational, jokes came fast and loose, and viewers were only there for the yucks.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 23 July 2021
  • Half of my fellow shoppers wore masks of one kind or another and most of us kept a safe distance, but a few folks were playing fast and loose with the rules.
    — Beth Spotswood, SFChronicle.com, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Collectively, everyone played it fast and loose, sweating it out as proud stalwarts of the midday block.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Peters also notes many jewelers trying to capitalize on the trend played a bit fast and loose with the sources for their hair weavings.
    — Katy Kelleher, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Sean had already been worked on a bit before the merge, since the first season was a bit fast and loose with contestant interaction at the challenges.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 19 Aug. 2020

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