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Definition

relaxed; or lacking in strictness or strength

LAX is also the frequently used airport code for Los Angeles International Airport.

lax = relaxed; or lacking in strictness or strength

such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable
lax in attending classes
In the enforcement of his rules, he was at times rigid, and at times lax.
Douglass, Frederick -- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave
Noble contrast to the lax morality so common among foreign politicians.
Oscar Wilde -- An Ideal Husband

lax = lacking in strictness or strength

In deep disappointment I have wept over the laxity of the church.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail

laxity = lack of strictness or strength

We stop at the steps, clumped, holding our hats between our lax hands...
William Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying

lax = relaxed

"...or were the nuns too strict?"
"They are not strict at all," I said. "The Bishop who visits them every year says they are lax."
Jean Rhys -- Wide Sargasso Sea

lax = lacking in strictness or strength

Lanes views on marriage seem somewhat lax.
Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest

lax = lacking in strictness or strength

The minister before Hegbert ... took sort of a lax view about school dances as long as they were chaperoned, and because of that, they'd become a tradition of sorts.
Nicholas Sparks -- A Walk to Remember

lax = relaxed; or lacking in strictness

The pony talked with his ears. You could tell exactly how he felt about everything by the way his ears pointed. Sometimes they were stiff and upright and sometimes lax and sagging.
John Steinbeck -- The Red Pony

lax = relaxed

The Spencer of last year would've whizzed over to the Kahns' in her Mercedes, drunk bad keg beer, and maybe made out with Mason Byers or some other cute lax boy.
Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars

lax = relaxed (lacking in strictness or strength)

We have been too lax.
Wilde, Oscar -- Lady Windermere's Fan
She freed herself from his lax embraces without difficulty.
Conrad, Joseph -- The Secret Agent
Her attitude had become very lax and despondent when the typewriter stopped in the next room.
Woolf, Virginia -- Night and Day
He would bide his time, make them think he was content to remain here .... and then, when they had grown lax, he would be off again.
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
His colloquialisms seemed to Carol no more lax than their habitual slang.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
More good news: As the day has worn on, everyone has gotten a little more lax about guarding the bedroom constantly, just as I'd hoped.
Lauren Oliver -- Delirium
Anyway, in Virginia they're very lax about driver's licenses.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
He disliked having anything to do with the domestic serfs—the "drones" as he called them—and everyone said he spoiled them by his laxity.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

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