slacker

Example Sentences

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“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

Some of the plot is just unnecessary padding, like Daniel’s girlfriend troubles and slacker mentality, spiking in an odd scene where he hysterically bemoans his own uselessness.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024

Instead, it’s a slacker comedy that swaps punchlines for laid-back, lived-in absurdities.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2023

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