slackness

[ US /ˈsɫæknəs/ ]
[ UK /slˈæknəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being lax and neglectful
  2. the quality of being loose (not taut)
    he hadn't counted on the slackness of the rope
  3. weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy
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How To Use slackness In A Sentence

  • Although there was degradation and slackness prevailing in the character and conduct activities, there was tremendous rising of Gyan (Knowledge).
  • As he rose in the hierarchy of the brewery, he tolerated not the slightest slackness or imprecision. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • Low sales figures were partly because of normal mid-summer slackness in/of demand.
  • Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said any slackness in the global response to the floods may give extremists an opportunity to promote what he described as their destructive agenda. Pakistan Braces for More Flooding
  • He had an inclination to glory, but it was tempered more with rashness and fury than with moderation and counsell: his liberalities were without discretion, measure, or distinction, immoveable oftentimes in his purposes, but that was rather an ill-grounded obstinacy than constancie, and that which many call bountie deserved more reasonably in his the name of coldnesse and slacknesse of spirit. "[ Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497
  • Real were elegant but there was an air of self-congratulation and the slackness that has beset them this season had not been purged entirely.
  • The two diggers blessed the slackness of the long-dead Victorian navvies - and the careless overseeing of their foreman - for the respite. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
  • As the townsmen became the electors of the minister, and when the new latitude in membership had been accepted by the churches, there soon appeared a growing slackness of discipline and also an increase of authority in the hands of the ministers and their subordinate deaconry. The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut
  • They see nothing wrong with slackness and tiefing.
  • Marshall, though, would not escape with slackness again, even if it wasn't quite so slapstick the second time round.
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