lax vs red-handed

lax

adj
  • Lacking care; neglectful, negligent. 

  • Loose; not tight or taut. 

  • Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict. 

  • Describing an associative monoidal functor. 

noun
  • Lacrosse. 

  • A salmon. 

red-handed

adj
  • Showing clear evidence of guilt; in the act of wrongdoing. 

  • Deadly, bloody. 

  • With hands that are red from blood. 

How often have the words lax and red-handed occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )