The quality of being lax and neglectful.
1 It leads to selfishness, to a laxness in home manners very demoralizing.
2 If we do, it's an evidence of laxness of morals in ourselves.
3 Such men are prodigious exceptions in times of material decadence and mental laxness .
4 Gox's laxness played a key role in the debacle.
5 What I got is a sense of his laxness .
6 Teddy carries our national laxness to a foolhardy extent.
7 Quite aware of his inclination to laxness , I was yet unprepared for his present state.
8 He must have a talk with her about her laxness with regard to hours-andother things.
9 This carelessness seemed to him like indifference, and indicated a general laxness in the temple servants.
10 The fall of the Roman empire was preceded by an extraordinary laxness of the marriage tie.
11 He was as good as his word, speaking of the laxness of both Iroquois and Wyandots.
12 After an unsuccessful hunt for a censored book in north-east Africa, I benefited from this laxness .
13 God damn Colin Rexrew, his laxness and stupidity.
14 His laxness in the manner of dress was seen to be ingrained, an incurable defect of soul.
15 All this was the result of laxness , of the sentimentality he condemned; a firmer hand was needed everywhere.
16 In fact I fear that in Grace's case I have so far erred on the side of laxness .
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