- comparative of slack.
slacker
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In another writer’s hands, the soft-handed seat-fillers of his slacker masterpiece “Office Space” would be contemptible.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
The prototypical Gen Xer is resilient and cynical, a “latchkey kid” turned disaffected slacker, raised on MTV and limited parental supervision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“You’re a slacker. You remind me of your father when he went here. He was a slacker, too.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
That realisation manifests in the lovestruck slacker rock of Dragonfly, and the finger-plucked Neptune Baby, with its refrain, "I'm a boat, and you are the water".
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025
Instead of feeling like a lazy slacker, he had thought he could hear admiration in the voice of his supervisor.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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Atmospheric dive bars, funky/punky mom-and-pop shops and reasonable rents began attracting artists, musicians and bohemian slackers and scenesters as residents in the early ’90s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
These are the people cranking up productivity, impressing managers and making the rest of us look like slackers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
While the letter doesn't call out any groups by name, the message is clearly intended to put slackers on high alert.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024
Jimmy Buffett celebrated slackers before the word existed, even though he was hardly one himself.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2023
He bounced a couple of slackers who confused freedom with no rules, so the rest of us don’t make waves.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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