Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
LAXLY
laxly, leniently
(adverb) in a permissively lenient manner; “he felt incensed that Tarrant should have been treated so leniently given his crime”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
laxly (comparative more laxly, superlative most laxly)
In a lax manner; without rigor or strictness.
Antonyms
• strictly
• tensely
• tightly
Source: Wiktionary
Lax"ly, adv.
Definition: In a lax manner.
LAX
Lax, a. [Compar. Laxer; superl. Laxest.] Etym: [L. laxus Cf. Laches, Languish, Lease, v. t., Leash.]
1. Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber. The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy. Ray.
2. Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal. The discipline was lax. Macaulay. Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions. J. A. Symonds. The word "æternus" itself is sometimes of a lax signification. Jortin.
3. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
Syn.
– Loose; slack; vague; unconfined; unrestrained; dissolute; licentious.
Lax, n.
Definition: A looseness; diarrhea.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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