lax

Definition

  • adjective: not careful enough
  • adjective: having loose bowels
  • synonyms: loose, dissolute, licentious

Examples

  • The university has been 'lax' about/in enforcing these rules.

  • He wrote an essay condemning the moral 'laxity' in society.

  • their 'laxness' [='laxity'] in enforcing these rules

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) There's something you should know. The reason they don't have money... I told Norther about the vagaries of Texas oil money... ...and its effect on real-estate prices... ...and how lax enforcement of fiduciary process... ...had made savings and loans particularly vulnerable. Hearing this news, (..)
    2003 Big Fish