Laxity in a sentence as a noun

The laws as written are simply being enforced — with some laxity in many places.

But the skew in the algorithms and the laxity regarding the rules also has a role to play.

Are the fines kept "low" in order to not scare businesses away from continued laxity?

If there's a bias in the hiring phase, there's likely to be similar laxity in the firing phase, too.

Once again, Stallman took it upon himself to correct what he saw as ethical laxity.

There is no laxity for meth, crack or pain killers, which I would assume account for these deaths--not *********.

I only worked 4 hours and my salaryman brain rebels against the sheer laxity!

This creates a certain amount of laxity in programmer's thinking.

People's laxity towards Apple's NDAs more or less reflects Apple's laxity in deciding whether to declare a piece of software is under NDA. I mean, the iPhone SDK was under one for months after it was released to the public.

There will always be some editing tasks that will require less rigid rules but I think we should value correctness by default and then introduce laxity in controlled ways where it makes sense.

The classification levels below "top secret" involve a laughable laxity.

They don't have any rights and as local monopolists of violence certainly don't have any expectation of laxity in others' vigilance.

Methodological laxity is particularly deadly in such challenging domains.

They deeply deplored the degeneracy of the times in which they lived, emphasising particularly the indifference to religion, the increasing materialism and the laxity of sexual morals.

Were contract law not so eager to allow liability in economic transactions to be waived, the licenses that absolved the code writers of any potential liability from bad code would not have induced an even greater laxity in what these code writers were producing.

It was famously attacked by the Catholic and Jansenist philosopher Pascal, during the formulary controversy against the Jesuits, in his Provincial Letters as the use of rhetorics to justify moral laxity, which became identified by the public with Jesuitism; hence the everyday use of the term to mean complex and sophistic reasoning to justify moral laxity.

Laxity definitions

noun

the condition of being physiologically lax; "baths can help the laxness of the bowels"

See also: laxness

noun

the quality of being lax and neglectful

See also: laxness remissness slackness