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slackness
noun as in negligence
Example Sentences
Contextual has undoubted benefits and can take up some of the slack, but it won’t provide a magic bullet.
In the meantime, let’s cut folks some slack and see how this big engine rolls as it kicks into high gear.
“I feel a great disturbance in the slack, as if millions of people tried to log on for the first time in two weeks and were suddenly silenced,” software analyst Steve O’Grady of RedMonk tweeted, referencing a famous line from Star Wars.
When I’m finished petting Qoobo, there’s no protest — the tail simply goes slack.
Gauges of input prices and costs paid by businesses are also perking up as of late, though factories still have plenty of slack in capacity.
For this he had kept his body clean and his soul clean where all about him was sloth and slackness.
The bridle of the throat then is to be held attempered between slackness and stiffness.
Complaints of waste in supply departments and of slackness of discipline among the troops were rife in the early months.
Even Mr. Monk, who was the most earnest of men, felt the general slackness of all around him.
In any case the Emperor was deeply incensed by what he considered Victor's slackness, and degraded him.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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