Laxity
noun
Lack of strictness or care.
The company was convicted due to its laxity in following health and safety regulations.
Often appears as...
- laxity in standards
- laxity in enforcement
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
noun
Looseness, not tightly held or fastened.
The patient suffered from ligament laxity.
Often appears as...
- ligament laxity
- joint laxity
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
Lack of strictness or care.
The company was convicted due to its laxity in following health and safety regulations.
Often appears as...
- laxity in standards
- laxity in enforcement
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
noun
Looseness, not tightly held or fastened.
The patient suffered from ligament laxity.
Often appears as...
- ligament laxity
- joint laxity
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Laxity implies a criticism, suggesting someone did not care enough to be strict.
Their laxity in security measures led to a data breach.
Pro Tip 2/3Corporate Context
Often used in business to criticize poor management or lack of rules.
The audit revealed laxity in the financial department.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Criminal
Laxity doesn't imply illegal activity, just a casual or negligent attitude.
The teacher's laxity allowed students to submit assignments late.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Laxity implies a criticism, suggesting someone did not care enough to be strict.
Their laxity in security measures led to a data breach.
Pro Tip 2/3Corporate Context
Often used in business to criticize poor management or lack of rules.
The audit revealed laxity in the financial department.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Criminal
Laxity doesn't imply illegal activity, just a casual or negligent attitude.
The teacher's laxity allowed students to submit assignments late.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Laxity implies a criticism, suggesting someone did not care enough to be strict.
Their laxity in security measures led to a data breach.
Pro Tip 2/3Corporate Context
Often used in business to criticize poor management or lack of rules.
The audit revealed laxity in the financial department.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Criminal
Laxity doesn't imply illegal activity, just a casual or negligent attitude.
The teacher's laxity allowed students to submit assignments late.
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Video examples
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to use the authority under the statute to stop liar's loans. And this was a matter first of dogma. They're just horrifically opposed to anything regulatory. But it is also the international competition in laxity,
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Mars Gets Ready for Its...
all that hard even now my guess is jim bell appreciates the laxity oh and it's time for a proper introduction so for our listeners please introduce yourself by saying your name and what you do
Video examples
How to rob a bank (from...
to use the authority under the statute to stop liar's loans. And this was a matter first of dogma. They're just horrifically opposed to anything regulatory. But it is also the international competition in laxity,
Video examples
Mars Gets Ready for Its...
all that hard even now my guess is jim bell appreciates the laxity oh and it's time for a proper introduction so for our listeners please introduce yourself by saying your name and what you do
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Murray Rothbard
American Economist
The expansionary operations of the Second Bank of the United States, coupled with its laxity toward insisting on specie payment by the state banks, impelled a further inflationary expansion of state banks on top of the spectacular enlargement of the central bank. Thus, the number of incorporated state banks rose from 232 in 1816 to 338 in 1818.
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Bernice King
American
Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
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Dorothea Dix
American Activist
The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained.
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Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
American Writer
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
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Marine Le Pen
French Politician
Elected president of the Republic, I would immediately, and with no hesitation, carry out the battle plan against Islamist terrorism and against judicial laxity.
Quote examples
Murray Rothbard
American Economist
The expansionary operations of the Second Bank of the United States, coupled with its laxity toward insisting on specie payment by the state banks, impelled a further inflationary expansion of state banks on top of the spectacular enlargement of the central bank. Thus, the number of incorporated state banks rose from 232 in 1816 to 338 in 1818.
Quote examples
Bernice King
American
Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
Quote examples
Dorothea Dix
American Activist
The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained.
Quote examples
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
American Writer
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
Quote examples
Marine Le Pen
French Politician
Elected president of the Republic, I would immediately, and with no hesitation, carry out the battle plan against Islamist terrorism and against judicial laxity.
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