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What is the adjective for laxity?

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lax
  1. lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
  2. loose; not tight or taut.
  3. lacking care; neglectful, negligent
  4. (archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
  5. (mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor
  6. Synonyms:
      7. careless, negligent, slack, neglectful, remiss, heedless, lazy, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, inattentive, disregardful, derelict, casual, offhand, unmindful, delinquent, neglecting, regardless, devil-may-care, asleep on job, paying no mind, lackadaisical, indifferent, thoughtless, irresponsible, perfunctory, nonchalant, cursory, unconcerned, slap-happy, disorganized, haphazard, apathetic, disorganised, unsystematic, tardy, reckless, shoddy, disinterested, loose, insouciant, unheeding, slovenly, unmeticulous, incautious, unthorough, improvident, hit-or-miss, uncaring … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “A review of electronic security has reportedly uncovered a culture of lax security inside the public service.”
      “We believe the lax dress code at this company contributed to the frathouse behavior that many of its male employees exhibited.”
      “She had decided to leave her hair in a more lax knot, rather than her usual taut bun.”
laxist
  1. (theology) Promoting a lax view or interpretation of something.
laxed
  1. (phonetics) Of a vowel: made lax.
laxest
  1. superlative form of lax: most lax
  2. Synonyms:
      3. slackest, laziest, sloppiest, most careless, most negligent, most neglectful, most heedless, most slapdash, most slipshod, most inattentive, most disregardful, most derelict, most casual, most offhand, most unmindful, most delinquent, most regardless, most devil-may-care, most lackadaisical, most indifferent, most thoughtless, most irresponsible, most perfunctory, most nonchalant, most cursory, most unconcerned, most disorganized, most slap-happy, most apathetic, most disorganised, most unsystematic, tardiest, recklessest, shoddiest, most unheeding, most disinterested, slovenliest, loosest, most insouciant, most incautious, most unmeticulous, most improvident, most unthorough, most uncaring, blithest, most carefree, messiest, most shambolic, most unorganized, most all over the place … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “From one of the laxest attitudes to smoking, Cyprus will overnight go to having one of the strictest anti-smoking laws in Europe.”
      “If cosseting the rich against high taxation works, how come we've been doing it for the past decade thanks to the laxest non-domicile laws in the world, and yet we're skint?”
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