Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a lax manner; loosely; without exactness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a lax manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
lax manner, withoutrigor orstrictness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a permissively lenient manner
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Examples
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Under the Duke's government, the city's harsh laws against fornication have been laxly enforced, but Angelo, who later reveals himself as a hypocrite, is known to be a hard-liner on matters of sexual immorality.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Gambling is legal in many jurisdictions, and laws against drugs and prostitution are laxly enforced and widely disregarded.
Most Economists Have Two Hands, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Under the Duke's government, the city's harsh laws against fornication have been laxly enforced, but Angelo, who later reveals himself as a hypocrite, is known to be a hard-liner on matters of sexual immorality.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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ABC is still Dancing With the Stars (8 ET/PT) — though, as always, whether some of the contestants are really "stars" and whether what they're doing counts as "dancing" depends on how laxly you define the terms.
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Though personally anticlerical, he followed a policy of enforcing anti-Catholic laws laxly or not at all in areas where religious sentiment was strong.
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Though personally anticlerical, he followed a policy of enforcing anti-Catholic laws laxly or not at all in areas where religious sentiment was strong.
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Some of Vinashin's creditors, meanwhile, are seeking a commitment from the government that it won't let the company fail, says a person familiar with discussions on how to manage the company's debt — a prospect that leaves Vietnam's government in a difficult position as it attempts to tighten up spending at many of the country's laxly supervised state-owned enterprises.
Vinashin Payment Deadline Looms James Hookway 2010
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Though personally anticlerical, he followed a policy of enforcing anti-Catholic laws laxly or not at all in areas where religious sentiment was strong.
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Hello, that guarded cakes laxly shrugged irrespective of this dire cakes.
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Though personally anticlerical, he followed a policy of enforcing anti-Catholic laws laxly or not at all in areas where religious sentiment was strong.
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