Sample Sentences for
lax
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lax as in:  lax supervision

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Lax safeguards contributed to the oil spill.
lax = without strictness or strength
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    In the enforcement of her rules, she was at times rigid, and at times lax.  (source)
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    He could be as lax and incompetent as Rose the Nose, if he wanted.  (source)
    lax = relaxed; or lacking in strictness
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    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.  (source)
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    "...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."  (source)
    lax = lacking in strictness or strength
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    In deep disappointment I have wept over the laxity of the church.  (source)
    laxity = lack of strictness or strength
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    I hold myself to blame for my laxness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    That may have been partly because they regarded Europe as a sink of iniquity, where strange laxities prevailed.†  (source)
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    In view of the future or possible, we should live quite laxly and undefined in front, our outlines dim and misty on that side; as our shadows reveal an insensible perspiration toward the sun.†  (source)
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    There were a lot of things about the trial that were wrong; but the practice of jurisprudence was much laxer then.†  (source)
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    The room has a concrete slab floor, corrugated steel walls separating it from the neighboring units, and-this is a mark of distinction and luxury-a roll-up steel door that faces northwest, giving them a few red rays at times like this, when the sun is setting overLAX.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overlax means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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    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.  (source)
    lax = relaxed (lacking in strictness or strength)
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    Then parental laxity is the rule of the day.†  (source)
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    Slackness, laxness, nobody caring beyond a bit of lip-service.†  (source)
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lax as in:  lax rope

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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.  (source)
lax = relaxed
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We stop at the steps, clumped, holding our hats between our lax hands...  (source)
lax = slack
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