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Synonyms for lax

Grammar : Adj
Spell : laks
Phonetic Transcription : læks

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Définition of lax

Origin :
  • c.1400, "loose" (in reference to bowels), from Latin laxus "wide, loose, open," figuratively "loose, free, wide," from PIE root *(s)leg- "to be slack, be languid" (cf. Greek legein "to leave off, stop," lagos "hare," literally "with drooping ears," lagnos "lustful, lascivious," lagaros "slack, hollow, shrunken;" Latin languere "to be faint, weary," languidis "faint, weak, dull, sluggish, languid"). Of rules, discipline, etc., attested from mid-15c.
  • adj slack, remiss
Example sentences :
  • Their discipline was lax, and many of them had left their posts, and gone off into the town.
  • Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
  • We are lax, indeed, but possibly that is why we are so kind.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • If any one imagines that this law is lax, let him keep its commandment one day.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "A little too lax, also, for the proprieties of English life," added Lady Vyner.
  • Extract from : « Luttrell Of Arran » by Charles James Lever
  • Their bodies were so lax that their short weekly promenade to the cemetery exhausted them.
  • Extract from : « Sacrifice » by Stephen French Whitman
  • Discipline was lax in those days, but we were all the better for it.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916 » by Various
  • The precisian, they say, disapproved of Danton's lax and heedless courses.
  • Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) » by John Morley
  • For all this, interest in the rainmaker's efforts did not lax.
  • Extract from : « Trail's End » by George W. Ogden
  • Possibly it was not that the Germans were too severe, but that we were too lax.
  • Extract from : « The War in South Africa » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • I loathed the lax, cheap honor of the world and its hypocrisy.
  • Extract from : « Man and Maid » by Elinor Glyn

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