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

Ripley, a slacker and a con man grinding out a living in postwar New York, is sent to Italy to try to persuade a trust-funded idler to come home and take over the family business.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024

“I don’t know what got into me,” the slacker says.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan