laxity in English

noun

[lax·i·ty || 'læksətɪ]

laxness, looseness; negligence, carelessness; lack of strictness; vagueness

Use "laxity" in a sentence

1. There has most definitely been an acceptance of laxity in developing alternative methods, and that laxity must cease with this directive.

2. Some Christians were yielding to the atmosphere of moral laxity and were tolerating immorality.

3. But bloating, laxity, conceit, extravagance and inertia are to be found in certain degrees.

4. The spread of juvenile delinquency in our own age is largely due to parental laxity.

5. Constitutional, or sometimes acquired capsular laxity, must be carefully locked for by the Sulcus test.

6. Two years later the itinerant returned to attack Garden outright for allowing laxity and not promoting the preaching of grace.

7. Questions are being asked by prominent citizens as to the extent of police laxity which permitted the perpetration of this vicious crime.

8. Pascal denounced casuistry as the mere use of complex reasoning to justify moral laxity and all sorts of sins.

9. Hajdu-Cheney syndrome is a rare type of syndrome characterized by acro-osteolysis, dolichocephaly with multiple Wormian bones, absence of frontal sinuses and joint laxity.

10. 10 hours ago · Michael Arace:Crew's sudden defensive laxity overshadowing season-long offensive anemia The Crew will be playing their third game in seven …

11. Round the eye, full face and neck and the full body thin wrinkle and wrinkle and edict wrinkle and double chin"turkey neck" , "butterfly sleeve"abdomen and thigh skin laxity etc.

12. Abstract To describe the outcomes of Autografts and synthetics in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) reconstruction with respect to instrumented laxity measurements, patient-reported outcome scores, complications, and graft failure risk.

13. From what I have read on Accentuated lumbar lordosis..is a laxity of the ligaments and can be corrected..and may not be associated with ne deformities..I am not a medical personelbut sis lok it up as I was curious as I had a straightening of my

14. ‘Barratry can be identified in two forms within an admiralty context and seamen should be aware.’ Synonyms carelessness , lack of care, lack of proper care and attention, dereliction of duty, non-performance of duty, non-fulfilment of duty, remissness, neglectfulness, neglect, laxity, laxness, irresponsibility, inattention, inattentiveness

15. As a Catholic he branded the procedure of the pagan governors and attacked and ridiculed the pagan religion in general, and later, when he had become a Montanist, he attacked the supposed laxity of the Catholic Church with equal bitterness, not even refraining from casting suspicion on the celebration of the Agape by dark allusions (Ieiun. 17).

16. William of Malmesbury, speaking of the laxity of manners among the Anglo-Saxons in the age preceding the Conquest, says, "Potabatur in commune ab omnibus, in hoc studio noctes perinde ut dies perpetuantibus, parvis et Abjectis domibus totos sumptus absumebant, Francis et Normannis absimiles, qui amplis et superbis ædificiis modicas expensas agunt."

17. As a Catholic he branded the procedure of the pagan governors and attacked and ridiculed the pagan religion in general, and later, when he had become a Montanist, he attacked the supposed laxity of the Catholic Church with equal bitterness, not even refraining from casting suspicion on the celebration of the Agape by dark allusions (Ieiun.