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Not sufficiently strict, careful, or attentive.

adjective

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lax

Lax record keeping made the borrowed equipment difficult to trace.
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A negligent proofreader accepted responsibility for checking contributor names but skipped the task and marked the guide as reviewed anyway. The group's lax checking routine allowed that unexplained approval to pass without anyone asking which source had been used.
From Checking the Information Before Printing.
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