Adjective, : lax morals; a lax attitude toward discipline. ,a lax rope; a lax handshake. ,lax ideas. ,lax tissue; lax texture. From Dictionary.com.
BP and Shell have laxly started backing solar energy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Global Warming - January 3, 2000] Reference
This building was not as laxly protected as it might seem. From Wordnik.com. [All Together Dead]
Hello, that guarded cakes laxly shrugged irrespective of this dire cakes. From Wordnik.com. [Planet-x.com.au » The Science of Getting biscuits recipie birthday sydney newzealand cakes] Reference
With a deafening roar she swept in, the engineer jogging laxly on his cushions. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
When these are unusually licentious, sedition is interpreted liberally and laxly. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference
This is a fraudulent practice that appears to have been laxly enforced in the past. From Wordnik.com. [Harleen Kahlon: Cramer & Colleagues Put Heat on SEC to Bring Back Uptick Rule] Reference
A small hump raised his left shoulder to his neck, and his arm hung laxly at his side. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
The existing and proposed fines on employers are simply too low and too laxly enforced. From Wordnik.com. [VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » CSM-Deploying The Guard Isn’t Enough] Reference
He held out his hand somewhat laxly, but Paul took it in both his and wrung it fervently. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
They tend to be papery, glabrous, and laxly and rather diffusely veined, with one or two seeds. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 23] Reference
He said, ‘I may, perhaps, have said this; for nobody, at times, talks more laxly than I do.’. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference
The two Armenian guards held their bows laxly, resting their backs against the wall by the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
On Mary's coronation-day, the doors of the dungeon were so laxly guarded, that it was easy to escape. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Waxy white and horrific, it lay back downwards on the tarmac, fingers laxly curled up to meet the rain. From Wordnik.com. [Slay Ride]
The stout lady, strengthless and breathless, was lying in a chair, the jewel-case clasped laxly with one arm. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
So a bulk of the foreign rice Japan buys is poor-quality rice that is laxly inspected, says Masaru Morishima. From Wordnik.com. [Rice Scandal Halts Japanese Deals] Reference
She fell back into the arm-chair with closed eyes, and suffered her hands to fall laxly on either side of her knees. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
The giant grinned with a glint of white teeth, and cast her casually onto the sand, where she lay laxly, unconscious. From Wordnik.com. [The Conan Chronicles]
The black grinned with a glint of white teeth, and cast her casually in to the sand, where she lay laxly, unconscious. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloody Crown of Conan]
Meanwhile, all had exposure to laxly underwritten mortgages that have been widely recognized as the cause of the crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Himpler: Industrial Loan Companies are Part of the Economic Solution] Reference
They were rigidly enforced in areas where Catholic sentiment was weak, laxly or not at all in regions where it was strong. From Wordnik.com. [Cristero Rebellion: part 1 - toward the abyss] Reference
The black giant grinned with a glint of white teeth as he casually cast his captive into the sand, where she lay laxly, unconscious. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Adventurer]
His lip drooped still more laxly, as he sat looking out vaguely. From Wordnik.com. [The Law of the Land] Reference
I was pleased, however, to see that I was so lightly and laxly guarded. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wrong Paradise] Reference
The others make an unfavourable impression because they are so laxly executed. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
Mr.C. up to this day, Feb. 18th, 1798, held, though laxly, the doctrines of Socinus. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
Abetting Canada's human trafficking problem are lax laws that are sometimes laxly enforced. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Christianity - Canadian News] Reference
The word properly applies to Muhammadans only, but is often laxly used to include Hindoo ascetics. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference
While his hand laxly held mine in greeting I saw his eyes fixed intensely on the other side of the room. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900] Reference
While his hand laxly held mine in greeting, I saw his eyes fixed intensely on the other side of the room. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference
The Oxford of that day was not a place of much discipline and the official order of study was very laxly maintained. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Johnson and His Circle] Reference
Lassitude seemed to be enfolding us both; I observed that she rode laxly, with hand upon the horn and a weary yielding to motion. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Dust] Reference
£1,000 a year in lands among them; so it was laxly said. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference
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