Crossword-Solution: LAXNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Laxness | n. | The state of being lax; laxity. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “LAXNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Failure to attend to detail | 1 answer |
| the quality of being lax and neglectful | 1 answer |
| Icelandic Nobel prize winner. | 1 answer |
| Icelandic novelist. | 1 answer |
| the condition of being physiologically lax | 1 answer |
| Nobel prize winner in literature, 1955. | 1 answer |
| Lack of strictness | 2 answers |
| culpable negligence | 8 answers |
| A MISTAKE RESULTING FROM INATTENTION | 10 answers |
| sloppiness | 32 answers |
| permissiveness | 33 answers |
| imprecision | 37 answers |
| Mistreatment | 39 answers |
| unrestraint | 40 answers |
| imprudence | 44 answers |
| negligence | 45 answers |
| Recklessness | 48 answers |
| relinquishment | 56 answers |
| desertion | 56 answers |
| Wantonness | 62 answers |
| Laziness | 64 answers |
| inattentiveness | 65 answers |
| Apathy | 65 answers |
| Leniency | 66 answers |
| Carelessness | 67 answers |
| Inattention | 68 answers |
| heedlessness | 68 answers |
| slackness | 69 answers |
| Neglect | 74 answers |
| Disregard | 75 answers |
| Enthusiasm | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LAXNESS (5)
The poor Skull-Splitter was now as white as a sheet, and the drowsiness of his eyes and the laxness of his features showed that help came none too early.
Much that legitimately belonged to it, and much that did not in the laxness of the new code, he laid to the automobile.
But now he saw it proved that even the intuition of a man well-versed in human nature is not always infallible, and, ashamed of his past laxness and more ashamed yet of the doubts which this experience called up in regard to all his friends, he shut up the false stone with his usual care and buried his loss in his own bosom, till he could sift his impressions and recall with some degree of probability the circumstances under which this exchange could have been made.
Smith and Sir George, the latter would be called out of his study by his black servant, and my Lady Thrum would take that opportunity of mentioning when he was knighted, and how he got his foreign order, and deploring the sad condition of OTHER musical professors, and the dreadful immorality which sometimes arose in consequence of their laxness.
Prideaux grumbles (July 28th, 1674) at the laxness of the Commissioners, who should have exposed this abuse: ‘In town, one of their inquirys is whether any of the scholars weare pantaloons or periwigues, or keep dogs.’ The great dispute about dogs, which raged at a later date in University College, had already begun to disturb dons and undergraduates.
Quotes with LAXNESS (3)
Do not lower the standard or cater to the worldly laxness of the average Christian by making the way in easy. Make sure that everyone who joins fully understands his duties and obligations and is willing, in Christ's strength, to undertake them.
While it is important on the one hand that laxness in dealing with sin be avoided, it is equally important on the other to shun harsh judgment and groundless suspicion.
There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken seriously, we'll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1956–2015).