slackery
slackery noun: laxity; idleness; lack of requisite effort.
Noun
slackery (uncountable)
- Laxity; idleness; lack of requisite effort.
- When all intelligent influences and organizations are working as never before to obtain the biggest possible product from the soil, does it not seem slackery of the worst sort for any one who has, or can get a patch of tillable soil, or can manage to squeeze out a half hour, morning or evening, for...1917, Mary Fanton Roberts, The Touchstone, page 141
- The probability of a call to arms, not against Mexico, but against the almost almighty German Empire, was so great that it looked like slackery or cowardice to ask to be excused.1917, Rupert Hughes, We Can't Have Everything: A Novel, page 582
Adjective
slackery (not comparable)
- Characteristic of a slacker.
- A few weeks later, at my new OB/GYN's office, I overheard a slackery teenage girl on the phone to her friend.2003, Naomi Wolf, Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood, Anchor, →ISBN, page 32
- you might guess that The School of Rock is a skeptical, slackery satire with spasms of irony and angst.2003, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time
Origin of slackery
From slack + -ery.
From slacker + -y.
Questions about slackery
- What does slackery mean?
- Slackery means laxity; idleness; lack of requisite effort.
- What part of speech is slackery?
- Slackery can be a noun or an adjective.
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