slackery

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Laxity

   Laxity; idleness; lack of requisite effort.

   • 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.
   • It was especially had for Cheever, whose family took a dim view of New Deal slackery, and whose own Yankee scruples were such that— four decades later, blessedly solvent—he'd try to return his first Social Security check.
2. 2

   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.
   • you might guess that The School of Rock is a skeptical, slackery satire with spasms of irony and angst.

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