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Definition
relaxed; or lacking in strictness or strength
- He'd been lax about shaving lately, there seemed little point to it, so his beard was sprouting.p. 349.9
- He could have bought them off the Net, of course — Martha Graham was notoriously lax about scorekeeping, and plagiarism was a cottage industry there — but he'd taken a position on that.p. 194.9
There are no more uses of "lax" in Oryx and Crake.
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