laxity

Example Sentences

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Laxity that allows shoplifters back onto the streets to further entrench the problem could cause higher prices, or even store closures, he said.

From Washington Times • Dec. 6, 2022

By that strange Laxity which then tempered the severity of the Laws, I was permitted, for many days after my Fate was settled, to remain in a kind of semi-Enlargement.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

Laxity of morals and of conduct was alleged against the communities of the Anglican Church.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles

Laxity of morals and the coolest disregard possible characterized that period of our existence.

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley

For it is very conceivable that the Crasis, the Consistence, of the fibrous Blood may sometimes be affected with a morbid Laxity or Weakness, as well as the general System of the muscular Fibres.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)