Crossword-Solution: LAXITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Laxity | a. | The state or quality of being lax; want of tenseness, strictness, or exactness. |
We have 48 clues for the answer “LAXITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Want of strictness. | 1 answer |
| Strictness's opposite | 1 answer |
| Overindulgent quality | 1 answer |
| Opposite of diligence | 1 answer |
| Lenient quality | 1 answer |
| Absence of strictness | 1 answer |
| Lack of strictness | 2 answers |
| lack of discipline | 3 answers |
| informality | 11 answers |
| Looseness | 12 answers |
| inertness | 19 answers |
| muscular reaction | 24 answers |
| License | 34 answers |
| toleration | 44 answers |
| negligence | 45 answers |
| meagreness | 49 answers |
| abstinence | 51 answers |
| Malady | 51 answers |
| Indisposition | 52 answers |
| lenity | 53 answers |
| starvation | 53 answers |
| Latitude | 56 answers |
| Inflexibility | 56 answers |
| paucity | 57 answers |
| shortfall | 58 answers |
| Famine | 58 answers |
| irregularity | 59 answers |
| Poverty | 61 answers |
| constriction | 61 answers |
| shrinkage | 61 answers |
| ailment | 61 answers |
| squeezing | 62 answers |
| Hardness | 62 answers |
| Omission | 63 answers |
| shortcoming | 64 answers |
| deprivation | 65 answers |
| peaceful state | 65 answers |
| Dearth | 65 answers |
| Carelessness | 67 answers |
| Complaint | 67 answers |
| Absence | 67 answers |
| Shortage | 68 answers |
| slackness | 69 answers |
| Recession | 71 answers |
| Contraction | 72 answers |
| Affection | 76 answers |
| Lessening | 76 answers |
| Missing | 83 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with LAXITY (5)
The spectator feels it to be fool’s play, when he can distinguish the tedious commonplace of each man’s visage, with the perspiration and weary self-importance on it, and the very cut of his pantaloons, and the stiffness or laxity of his shirt-collar, and the dust on the back of his black coat.
With this end in view they dressed themselves in expensive costumes, took the trouble to learn the "lingo" spoken in the country, went to the extremity of copying the ways of the native women by painting their faces, and in one or two cases imitated the laxity of their morals.
How, then, in such an atmosphere of compromise, to keep honour bright and abstain from base capitulations? How are you to put aside love’s pleadings? How are you, the apostle of laxity, to turn suddenly about into the rabbi of precision; and after these years of ragged practice, pose for a hero to the lackey who has found you out? In this temptation to mutual indulgence lies the particular peril to morality in married life.
This, too, accounts for the fact that in this writing the accusation is more impressively repelled than before, that the doctrine of justification by faith alone resulted in moral laxity, and that, on the other hand, the fundamental and radical importance of righteousness by faith for the whole moral life is revealed in such a heart-refreshing manner.
People said that a certain laxity had crept into his life; that he had never gone near a church latterly, and had been sometimes seen on Sundays with unblacked boots, lying on his elbow under a tree, with a cynical gaze at surrounding objects.
Quotes with LAXITY (3)
Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.
Several times in my ministry people have expressed the fear that self-acceptance will abort the ongoing conversion process and lead to a life of spiritual laziness and moral laxity. Nothing could be more untrue. The acceptance of self does not mean to be resigned to the status quo. On the contrary, the more fully we accept ourselves, the more successfully we begin to grow. Love is a far better stimulus than threat or pressure.
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1954–2019).