slackness

Example Sentences

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But the flaws in “The Californians” reflect ambition and overexertion, not slackness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025

A moment of slackness in the Sligo rearguard then allowed Kevin van Veen to slalom forward, but his pass across goal just eluded Josh Morris, who had earlier found the side-netting with a deflected strike.

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2022

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is decrying the “immaturity” of his nation’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak and said officials’ “non-positive attitude, slackness and inactivity” hindered efforts to control the virus, state media reported Wednesday.

From Washington Times • May 18, 2022

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

What was taken by outsiders to be slackness, slovenliness or even generosity was in fact a full recognition of the legitimacy of forces other than good ones.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison