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• n  the condition of being physiologically lax
• n  the quality of being lax and neglectful

• Said he: "The sexual laxity current among our own youth is admittedly an unlovely phenomenon from an esthetic point of view.
• Bolton accuses the Administration of laxity in dealing with a nuclear-armed North Korea and an Iran intent on obtaining the bomb, not to mention its efforts to arrange a .
• Experts point to other deep-seated causes that produce a continued national craving for drugs: lack of community, disintegration of the family, moral laxity, the relentless .

• laxness
• remissness
• slackness

News & Articles

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• China's Xi in 'thorough clean-up' of party: media
  Beijing (AFP) June 18, 2013 President Xi Jinping is to launch a "thorough clean-up" of the ruling Communist Party, state media reported Tuesday, the latest strongly-worded anti-corruption drive to be enacted by China's new leader. The "upcoming year-long campaign" will target what the Xinhua news agency described as "undesirable work styles such as formalism, bureaucratism, laxity and ...
  June 19, 2013 - Space War

Quotes

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• Dick Pound in Independent
  Dick Pound, the chairman of Wada, said: "Somebody who has tested positive twice in less than two years is someone who clearly doesn't think the rules apply to him. We were always worried about the secrecy and apparent laxity of the testing when the...
• Manmohan Singh in Press Trust of India
  Pointing out that corporate governance was not getting adequate attention in public discourse on governance, Singh said, "in the era of protectionism few bothered about corporate governance and transparency in accounting and management. Such laxity...
• Pat Quinn in Vancouver Sun
  There doesn't seem to be any laxity or anything like that in the knee, but he's been fighting it for a while,said Oilers coach Pat Quinn.