slackly

slack¹ (sl

adj. slack·er, slack·est

1. Moving slowly; sluggish: a slack pace.

2. Lacking in activity; not busy: a slack season for the travel business.

3. Not tense or taut; loose: a slack rope; slack muscles. See Synonyms at loose.

4. Lacking firmness; flaccid: a slack grip.

5. Lacking in diligence or due care or concern; negligent: a slack worker. See Synonyms at negligent.

6. Flowing or blowing with little speed: a slack current; slack winds.

7. Linguistics Pronounced with the muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed; lax.

v. slacked, slack·ing, slacks

v.tr.

1. To make slower or looser; slacken.

2. To be careless or remiss in doing: slack one's duty.

3. To slake (lime).

v.intr.

1. To be or become slack.

2. To evade work; shirk.

1. A loose part, as of a rope or sail.

2. A lack of tension; looseness.

3. A period of little activity; a lull.

a. A cessation of movement in a current of air or water.

b. An area of still water.

5. Unused capacity: still some slack in the economy.

6. slacks Casual trousers that are not part of a suit.

adv.

In a slack manner: a banner hanging slack.

Phrasal Verb:

slack off

To decrease in activity or intensity.

Idiom:

cut/give (someone) some slack

Slang To make an allowance for (someone), as in allowing more time to finish something.

[Middle English slak, from Old English slæc; see slg- in Indo-European roots.]

slackly adv.

slackness n.

slack² (sl

A mixture of coal fragments, coal dust, and dirt that remains after screening coal.

[Middle English sleck.]

slack³ (sl

n. Chiefly British

1. A small dell or hollow.

2. A bog; a morass.

[Middle English slak, from Old Norse slakki.]

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Adv.

slackly - in a relaxed manner; not rigid; "his hands lay loosely"

loosely

Translations

slackly [ˈslæklɪ] ADV

1. (lit) [hang] → flojamente

2. (fig) [work] → sin poner cuidado, negligentemente

slackly

adv

(= loosely, floppily) → schlaff; hold → locker; hang → schlaff, lose

(= carelessly, sloppily) → schlampig

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slack

Archer's black brocade, while Miss Archer's brown and purple poplins hung, as the years went on, more and more slackly on her virgin frame.

The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context

I had been forced to loosen my grasp on expectation; and, but an hour ago, had sunk slackly under the discouraging thought that the current of life, and the impulse of destiny, had swept her for ever from my reach; and, behold, while bending suddenly earthward beneath the pressure of despondency--while following with my eyes the track of sorrow on the turf of a graveyard--here was my lost jewel dropped on the tear-fed herbage, nestling in the messy and mouldy roots of yew-trees.

The Professor by Bronte, Charlotte View in context

Slackly lying back in her armchair, she watched the little flames beginning to creep among the coals indifferently, as if they, too, were very distant and indifferent.

Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context

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