Remiss
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

LAX
Emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels"

4 letters

WEAK
Wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity"

SOFT
(of sound) relatively low in volume; "soft voices"; "soft music"

SLOW
(of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"

LAZY
Disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"

EASY
Obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally; "easy money"

5 letters

LOOSE
Become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"

DRONY

SLACK
A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

WRONG
Any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right

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UNWARY
Not alert to danger or deception; "the shrieks of unwary animals taken by surprise"; "some thieves prey especially on unwary travelers"; "seduce the unwary reader into easy acquiescence"- O.J.Campbell

SLOPPY
Wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; "a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"

REMISS
Failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills"

FROWSY
Negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance"

DOLESS

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WRONGLY
Without justice or fairness; "wouldst not play false and yet would wrongly win"- Shakespeare

WORKSHY

RELAXED
Without strain or anxiety; "gave the impression of being quite relaxed"; "a relaxed and informal discussion"

LENIENT
Not strict; "an easy teacher"; "easy standards"; "lenient rules"; "an easy penalty"

LAGGING
Used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat

LAGGARD
Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

DRONISH

CADGING

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SPONGING

SLURRING

SLUGGISH
(of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"

SLOTHFUL
Disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"

SLIPSHOD
Marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"

SKIMPING

SCAMPING

OFFGUARD
Not prepared or vigilant; "the blow caught him napping"; "caught in an off-guard moment"; "found him off his guard"

INDOLENT
Disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"

IMPOTENT
(of a male) unable to copulate

HEEDLESS
Marked by or paying little heed or attention; "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"--Franklin D. Roosevelt; "heedless of danger"; "heedless of the child's crying"

FECKLESS
Generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"

FAINEANT
Disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"

DILATORY
Wasting time

DELAYING

DALLYING

BONELAZY

BACKWARD
Having made less than normal progress; "an economically backward country"

DERELICT
A ship abandoned on the high seas

CARELESS
Effortless and unstudied; "an impression of careless elegance"; "danced with careless grace"

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NEGLIGENT
Characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern; "negligent parents"; "negligent of detail"; "negligent in his correspondence"

UNMINDFUL
(followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of; "oblivious of the mounting pressures for political reform"; "oblivious to the risks she ran"; "not unmindful of the heavy responsibility"

UNHEEDING
Marked by or paying little heed or attention; "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"--Franklin D. Roosevelt; "heedless of danger"; "heedless of the child's crying"

UNGUARDED
Displaying or feeling no wariness; "an unguarded remark"

SLIGHTING
Tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark"

SHUFFLING
Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old"

SHIFTLESS
Lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy; "a shiftless student"; "studied in a shiftless way"

PARASITIC
Of or pertaining to epenthesis

LOITERING

LINGERING
The act of tarrying

IMPRECISE
Not precise; "imprecise astronomical observations"; "the terms he used were imprecise and emotional"

FORGETFUL
Failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her responsibilities"; "oblivious old age"

EASYGOING
Not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship; "what a cushy job!"; "the easygoing life of a parttime consultant"; "a soft job"

DONOTHING

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NEGLECTFUL
Not showing due care or attention; "inattentive students"; "an inattentive babysitter"; "neglectful parents"

DELINQUENT
Guilty of a misdeed; "delinquent minors"

UNWATCHFUL
Not alert to what is potentially dangerous

UNTHINKING
Mentally sluggish

UNRIGOROUS

SCROUNGING

REGARDLESS
(usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration; "careless of the consequences"; "crushing the blooms with regardless tread"

PERMISSIVE
Granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline; "direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive"; "permissive parents"

NEGLECTING

ERGOPHOBIC

BEHINDHAND
In debt; "he fell behind with his mortgage payments"; "a month behind in the rent"; "a company that has been run behindhand for years"; "in arrears with their utility bills"

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THOUGHTLESS
Showing lack of careful thought; "the debate turned into thoughtless bickering"

MICAWBERISH

INDIFFERENT
Being neither good nor bad; "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French"

INATTENTIVE
Not showing due care or attention; "inattentive students"; "an inattentive babysitter"; "neglectful parents"

INADVERTENT
Happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally ; "with an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the table"; "accidental poisoning"; "an accidental shooting"

DISOBEDIENT
Not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children"

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UNRESTRAINED
Not subject to restraint; "unrestrained laughter"

LAISSEZFAIRE
The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs

FOOTDRAGGING

DISREGARDFUL

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UNCIRCUMSPECT

OVERINDULGENT
Excessively indulgent

NONAGGRESSIVE
Not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness

LACKADAISICAL
Idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way; "she was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical"; "a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town"- P.G.Wodehouse

DILLYDALLYING

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UNENTERPRISING
Lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome

OVERPERMISSIVE

NONRESTRICTIVE
Not limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase; "the nonrestrictive clause in `I always buy his books, which have influenced me greatly,' refers to his books generally and adds an additional fact about them"

NONINTERFERING

GOODFORNOTHING

15 letters

PROCRASTINATORY

PROCRASTINATIVE

PROCRASTINATING

16 letters

OVERLYPERMISSIVE

17 letters

CULPABLYNEGLIGENT