slacker

Example Sentences

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Generation X was known as the “slacker generation,” even though, arguably, they worked as hard as everyone else.

From MarketWatch

Ellis, meanwhile, has a nearly 14-year-old son who is in what she calls a “teenage, hormonal place” — not that dissimilar to Emily, who has three slacker teenagers obsessed with video games.

From Los Angeles Times

These are the people cranking up productivity, impressing managers and making the rest of us look like slackers.

From The Wall Street Journal

Barnoff says Nathaniel was a bit of a slacker when he was in junior high and taking lessons at the Cleveland Music School Settlement.

From Los Angeles Times

My backstory was that they lived in New York — he was trying to get in a band, it didn’t really happen for him, he was kind of a slacker.

From Los Angeles Times