Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a slack manner.
- Loosely; not tightly.
- Negligently; remissly; carelessly.
- Without briskness or activity. Times are dull and labor slackly employed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a slack manner.
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- adverb In a
slack manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a relaxed manner; not rigid
Etymologies
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Examples
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With these, as we now slackly say, he could “identify.”
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He thinks first and foremost of the markets; when one kind of good begins to go off slackly, he is ready with something new and appetising.
The Man Booker prize and its like are keeping literature afloat Robert McCrum 2010
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With these, as we now slackly say, he could “identify.”
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Through my binoculars the slackly wound body looked as full and fat as a python's coils.
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With these, as we now slackly say, he could “identify.”
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With these, as we now slackly say, he could “identify.”
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But then who could have imagined, post-Hatfield, that maintenance and warning systems would continue to be so slackly applied?
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The mouth inside the bubble fell slackly; then Bowman pulled himself together.
Tin 2010
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His hands hung slackly to his knees; Rubashov, who now had his back turned to the lamp, saw him like an apparition in the footlights of a stage.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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Billy's eyes caught a indefinite blur of VW in his rearview mirror and his mouth gaped slackly.
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