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Laxly

Laxly \Lax"ly\, adv. In a lax manner.

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laxly

adv. In a lax manner, without rigor or strictness.

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laxly

adv. in a permissively lenient manner; "he felt incensed that Tarrant should have been treated so leniently given his crime" [syn: leniently]

Usage examples of "laxly".

August of that same dark year, Gilles de Rais, Marshal of France, visited Gwalchmai, an invalid now, in the laxly besieged town of Compiegne.

At the same time the moral reforms of Trent were laxly carried out, for while decrees enforcing them were promulgated by Sixtus with one hand, with the other he sold dispensations and privileges.

Amarante stood there todthlessly half-grinning with his big gun held laxly, almost limply hi his hands.