Thesaurus / laxness
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Laxness in the care of one's room may mean the habit of laxness in other and more important ways.
A GIRL'S STUDENT DAYS AND AFTERJEANNETTE MARKSSince coming to the Meiggs Plantation there had been a certain amount of laxness in regard to what the children did.
SIX LITTLE BUNKERS AT MAMMY JUNE'SLAURA LEE HOPEIndeed, their laxness was also much canvassed with us, and the more staid of the visitors openly enough expressed their censure.
LOLA MONTEZEDMUND B. D'AUVERGNEThe woman chose this time to receive her lover in her house and to make a shameless public parade of her moral laxness.
THE LIFE OF LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, VOLUME III (OF 3)ALEXANDER WHEELOCK THAYERHer officers were men of spirit, but there seems to have been a fatal laxness in getting her ready for sea.
TWELVE NAVAL CAPTAINSMOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELLWe must not mistake an evident laxness of religious observance as being synonomous with moral looseness.
THE MEANING OF EVOLUTIONSAMUEL CHRISTIAN SCHMUCKERMuch that legitimately belonged to it, and much that did not in the laxness of the new code, he laid to the automobile.
THE BREAKING POINTMARY ROBERTS RINEHARTAll this was the result of laxness, of the sentimentality he condemned; a firmer hand was needed everywhere.
THE HAPPY ENDJOSEPH HERGESHEIMERThere were also accusations of laxness and fraud in the erecting and management of the public industrial plants.
VIRGINIA UNDER THE STUARTS 1607-1688THOMAS J. WERTENBAKERI have seen much comment on the increase of sexual laxness in the Central European states, owing to the influence of the war.
THE IRON RATIONGEORGE ABEL SCHREINERWORDS RELATED TO LAXNESS
- apathy
- dilatoriness
- do-nothingness
- dormancy
- dreaminess
- drowsiness
- dullness
- faineance
- faineancy
- heaviness
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- lackadaisicalness
- languidness
- languorousness
- laxness
- leadenness
- leisureliness
- lethargy
- listlessness
- neglectfulness
- negligence
- otioseness
- otiosity
- passivity
- remissness
- slackness
- sleepiness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slowness
- sluggardness
- sluggishness
- stolidity
- supineness
- tardiness
- torpescence
- torpidness
- weariness
- apathy
- dilatoriness
- do-nothingness
- dormancy
- dreaminess
- drowsiness
- dullness
- faineance
- faineancy
- heaviness
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- lackadaisicalness
- languidness
- languorousness
- laxness
- leadenness
- leisureliness
- lethargy
- listlessness
- neglectfulness
- negligence
- otioseness
- otiosity
- passivity
- remissness
- shiftlessness
- slackness
- sleepiness
- sloth
- slowness
- sluggardness
- sluggishness
- stolidity
- supineness
- tardiness
- torpescence
- torpidness
- weariness
- apathy
- dilatoriness
- do-nothingness
- dormancy
- dreaminess
- drowsiness
- dullness
- faineance
- faineancy
- heaviness
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- lackadaisicalness
- languidness
- languorousness
- laxness
- leadenness
- leisureliness
- lethargy
- listlessness
- neglectfulness
- negligence
- otioseness
- otiosity
- passivity
- remissness
- shiftlessness
- slackness
- sleepiness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stolidity
- supineness
- tardiness
- torpescence
- torpidness
- weariness
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