laxin a sentence
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Lax safeguards contributed to the oil spill.lax = without strictness or strength
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such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable
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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 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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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)lax = relaxed; or lacking in strictness
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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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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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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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The lady's offences were always against taste rather than conduct; her divorce record seemed due to geographical rather than ethical conditions; and her worst laxities were likely to proceed from a wandering and extravagant good-nature.† (source)
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This is because treating you too severely would just be a mistake in method, but treating you too laxly would be a mistake in political direction.† (source)laxly = with a lack of strictness or strength
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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)laxer = more relaxed; or with less strictness or strength
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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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We stop at the steps, clumped, holding our hats between our lax hands... (source)lax = relaxed
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But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.† (source)laxity = lack of strictness or strength
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Then the usual garbage: harboring enemies of the state due to laxness, their exalted positions once again protected by the Komitet-that sort of thing.† (source)
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