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5. dissolute, licentious, libertine, lascivious, debauched, wasted; wanton, wild, unbridled, profligate, abandoned, promiscuous, of easy virtue or morals; coarse, gross, crude; degenerate, depraved, corrupt, perverted; wicked, immoral, sinful, peccant, vice-ridden; unregenerate, unredeemable, unprincipled; shameful, disgraceful.
6. hanging, drooping, droopy, bagging, baggy, sagging, saggy, flapping, Inf. floppy; limp, flabby, soft, flaccid, rubbery.
laxative, n. cathartic, purgative, aperient, physic, ipecac, castor oil, ricinus oil, salts, dose of salts; purgation, purge, dose, Med. catharsis,
laxity, n. 1. looseness, slackness, laxness, carelessness, heedlessness, mindlessness, inattention, unmindfulness, absent-mindedness; neglect, negligence, dereliction, remissness; unrigorousness, noninterference, laissez faire, nonrestriction; nonobservance, unwariness, obliviousness, disregard, turning one's head; oversight, overlooking, lapse, failure, default, omission, nonfeasance, Law. laches.
2. inexactness, inaccuracy, inexactitude, unpreciseness, imprecision; slovenliness, Inf. sloppiness; vagueness, indefiniteness, broadness, generality, amorphousness, shapelessness, SI. blobbiness; inchoateness, disorder.
3. relaxedness, nonchalance, casualness, ataraxia; listlessnesss, lack of concern, sloth, acedia, indolence, laziness, lethargy, languidness, languor; indifference, perfunctoriness, insipidity, vapidity; unconcern, disinterest, disregard, insolicitude, unanxiousness, poco-curantism.
4. gentleness, easiness, lenience, leniency, mildness; unstrictness, permissiveness, overpermissiveness, overindulgence, softness, weakness; relaxation, flexibility, pliancy, tolerance, allowance; humoring, pampering, coddling, giving in, catering to.
5. freedom, release, letting go, license, indulgence, unrestraint, abandon; loose morals, easy virtue, immorality, promiscuity, improbity, indecency.
6. flaccidity, flaccidness, flabbiness, limpness, rub-beriness, floppiness, laxation, yield, Inf. give, plasticity, nonrigidity.
lay1, v. 1. put, place, set, rest, Inf. stick, leave, park, plant; set down, seat, settle; incline, lean.
2. drop, floor, lay low, prostrate; fell, knock or cut or strike down, sink.
3. lodge, submit, present, prefer, bring forward.
4. repose, impute, lay to; attribute, assign, ascribe, designate, insinuate.
5. bet, wager, give odds, gamble; chance, hazard, risk; plunge, play; deposit, put down, stake.
6. impose, apply, inflict; enjoin, prescribe; demand, exact, order.
7. posit, station, locate, site, situate; pitch, camp; establish, set up.
8. cover, spread, overspread, overlay; finish, veneer, varnish.
9. devise, arrange, plan, contrive, make; prepare, work up, plot, schematize.
10 level, flatten, smooth, even, plane.
11. allay, relieve, assuage, ease; alleviate, mitigate, palliate, soften, soothe, salve; calm, still, quiet.
12. aim, direct, train, point, sight, angle.
13. Slang, copulate, couple, mate, have sex, have
sexual relations, have intercourse; sleep with, lie with, go to bed with, SI. get in the hay with, SI. shack up with, Euph. go all the way with.
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lay about one a. lay into, SI. light into, strike out, flail, Inf. slug, sock, Sl. give the one-two, Sl. windmill; take the offensive, attack, assault, assail; attack tooth and nail, harry, harass; set upon, beset, beleaguer, besiege, storm,
b. proceed, set out, Inf get a move on, stir, scramble, bestir oneself; move, Inf mogate, start, push on or ahead; go at it, plug away, carry on, keep the ball rolling, keep going, keep busy, fall to with a will.
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