laxly
lax
noun[ U ]
USinformaluk /læks/
another word forlacrosse:
She's a recent high school graduate and lax player.
He's gaining confidence in his first season for the men’s lax team.

lax | American Dictionary

lax
adjective
us/læks/
lacking care, attention, or control; not severe or strong enough:
Security at the airport seemed lax.

laxity

noun[ U ]us/ˈlæk·sɪ·t̬i/(alsolaxness, us/ˈlæk·snəs/)
Laxity in enforcing safety regulations can cost lives.

Examples of lax

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The equivalence here is more lax: all we require is that the two trees represent the same mapping.
We can give explicit criteria of a more elementary sort providing a characterization of morphisms that are lax monads.
Detection, prosecution, and punishment of corrupt public servants became lax and inefficacious.
However, even in such cases, lax states are likely to support federal involvement in at least some areas of regulatory policy-making, such as product regulation.
He feared both the loss of secrets and the introduction of lax methods.
I do not currently have any evidence that front coronals group with lax vowels in phonological patterns.
Voicing cues as a function of the tense/lax distinction in vowels.
Moreover, the state was particularly lax in its protection of the nation's forest, until most of it was gone.
In this paper we have also shown how lax logic can be embedded naturally in modal logic with necessity and possibility.
These are no arguments in favor of lax environmental regulations, however.
Since firms want to minimise their production costs, they will produce in countries that have relatively lax regulatory standards.
There is a parallel opposition between rigorous, healthy market forces and lax, debilitating governmental assistance and regulation.
Similarly, variation between vowel insertion and no vowel insertion is expected in a comparable word with a pre-final lax vowel.
Hence, we found evidence supporting the conjecture that environmental 'abundance' (lax environmental regimes) is associated with specialization in pollution-intensive industries.
In passing, a new uniqueness result is given for the lax coproduct.
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