slackhanded
slackhanded is the alternative form of slack-handed.
Meaning of slack-handed
Adjective
slack-handed (comparative more slack-handed, superlative most slack-handed)
- Careless and inactive; lacking focus or initiative.
- Their warmth stirred her up to be so busy and laudably benevolent; perhaps if he had been away she might have been idle and slack-handed; but I do not know.1867, Rhoda Broughton, Not wisely, but too well: A Novel, page 155
- Done carelessly; slapdash.
- Solomon had a thorough contempt for slothful, slack-handed farming, and lost no opportunity of giving drowsy ignorance a view of its own deformity, and its own certain fate.1854, The Valley Farmer: A Monthly Journal of Agriculture, Volumes 6-7
- Having or done with hands that are slack.
- She motions with the needle across the station to the paralysed, slack-handed clock.1999, Caroline Adderson, A History of Forgetting, page 353
Forms of slackhanded
| comparative | more slackhanded |
|---|---|
| superlative | most slackhanded |
Questions about slackhanded
- What is slackhanded the alternative form of?
- Slackhanded is the alternative form of slack-handed.
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