Sekirov Dictionary

slack-handed

adjective 3
adverb 2
noun 1
forms 2

adjective3

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Having or done with hands that are slack.
- She motions with the needle across the station to the paralysed, slack-handed clock. — 1999
•
Careless and inactive; lacking focus or initiative.
- Their warmth stirred her up to be so busy and laudably benevolent; perhaps if he had been away she might have been idle and slack-handed; but I do not know. — 1867
•
Done carelessly; slapdash.
- Solomon had a thorough contempt for slothful, slack-handed farming, and lost no opportunity of giving drowsy ignorance a view of its own deformity, and its own certain fate. — 1854

adverb2

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Done with hands or wrists that are slack.
- No less stunned, I stood there, too, slack-handed, empty of thought. — 2011
•
Idly or carelessly.
- Yet they sit slack-handed, doing nothing about it, unable to agree even among themselves. — 1940

noun1

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A collection of slack-handed people.
- But what saith the wise man of the sluggards and slack-handed, in so favourable an opportunity ? — 1849

forms

more slack-handed · most slack-handed

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