slackness
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But the flaws in “The Californians” reflect ambition and overexertion, not slackness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
With sheer determination, he established that a man in his 40s didn’t have to suffer arm slackness and that with pure application he could learn any system.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2022
But they were undone by slackness at the back and ultimately a nightmare two-minute spell turned the game on its head.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2021
Chief among these are the dough’s slackness and its propensity to spread into a pancake-like loaf, baking up flat and dense, if even lightly mishandled.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2021
I’ve got to try to resist this slackness.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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