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the laxity
noun
The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.
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"Company managers got annoyed by the laxity in the workplace.
The laxity with regard to fiscal discipline extended to the biggest players in the euro club.
With proud wrath, she denounced the laxity of the productions of Balanchine's ballets that N.Y.C.B. gave in the nineties.
"I think the private bar has been taking advantage of the laxity here to do sloppy service," she said.
It was a sloppy error by Fábregas, symptomatic, perhaps, of the laxity that risks scuppering Arsenal's title ambitions.
Such is the laxity in the guidelines that almost anyone can be part of such a body.
That is not easy during and after pregnancy, when the hormones that create the laxity in the tendons and ligaments are sloshing around.
But the laxity creates an environment in which many illusionists come to believe that they're actually sawing the lady in half.
This particular crisis is also comparable with the sub-prime meltdown, in that the laxity of American regulation led to disaster.
The laxity on the home front uncovered by the dodgy B-52 flight presents the same kind of nuclear risk once epitomized by the cold war.
But the government has also come in from strong criticism for the laxity of the dams' inspection regime and Brazil's weak environmental legislation.
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