N. laxity,
laxness, looseness,
slackness,
toleration, freedom,
anarchy,
interregnum,
relaxation,
loosening, remission, dead letter, brutum fulmen, misrule,
license,
licentiousness,
insubordination,
lynch law,
nihilism, reign of violence,
dethronement,
deposition,
usurpation,
abdication V. be -lax, laisser faire, laisser aller, hold a loose rein, give the reins to, give rope enough, give a loose to,
tolerate,
relax, misrule, go beyond the length of one's tether, have one's swing, have one's fling, act without instructions, act without authority, act outside of one's authority, act on one's own responsibility, usurp authority,
dethrone,
depose,
abdicate Adj. lax, loose,
slack, remiss, weak,
relaxed,
licensed,
reinless,
unbridled,
anarchical, unauthorized, adespotic
N. intemperance,
sensuality,
animalism,
carnality, tragalism, pleasure,
effeminacy,
silkiness,
luxury, luxuriousness, lap of pleasure, lap of luxury, free living,
indulgence, high living, wild living,
inabstinence, self- indulgence,
voluptuousness,
epicurism,
epicureanism,
sybaritism, drug habit,
dissipation,
licentiousness,
debauchery,
crapulence, revels,
revelry,
debauch,
carousal,
jollification, drinking bout,
wassail,
saturnalia,
orgies, excess, too much, circean cup,
bhang,
hashish, marijuana, pot, hemp, grass, opium,
cocaine,
morphine, heroin, lsd, lysergic acid diethylamide, phencyclidine, angel dust, pcp, barbiturates, amphetamines, speed
V. be intemperate,
indulge, exceed, live well, live high, live high on the fat of the land, live it up, live high on the hog, give a loose to indulgence, wallow in voluptuousness, plunge into dissipation,
revel,
rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats, slake one's appetite, slake one's thirst,
swill,
pamper Adj. intemperate, inabstinent,
sensual,
self-indulgent,
voluptuous,
luxurious,
licentious, wild,
dissolute,
rakish, fast,
debauched,
brutish,
crapulous,
swinish,
piggish,
paphian,
epicurean,
sybaritical, bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury,
indulged,
pampered,
full-fed,
high-fed Phr. "being full of supper and distempering draughts"
