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Definition of Slackness
1. Noun. Weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy.
2. Noun. The quality of being loose (not taut). "He hadn't counted on the slackness of the rope"
3. Noun. The quality of being lax and neglectful.
Generic synonyms: Neglect, Neglectfulness, Negligence
Derivative terms: Lax, Lax, Remiss, Slack
Definition of Slackness
1. n. The quality or state of being slack.
Definition of Slackness
1. Noun. The state of being slack; the quality of having slack. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slackness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Slackness
Literary usage of Slackness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the by Jonathan Eastwood, William Aldis Wright (1884)
"Which might have well becomed the best of men, To taunt at slackness. A good
rebuke, Shakespeare, Ant. and Cl. m. 7. 28. It also had the sense of slowness ..."
2. Untersuchungen über künstliche Parthenogenese und das Wesen des by Victor Bérard, Herbert William Foskett, Auguste Comte, John Henry Bridges, Frederic Harrison, Edward Spencer Beesly, Richard Congreve, Henry Dix Hutton, Jacques Loeb, Ernst Schwalbe (1906)
"It is our slackness more than anything else which has handed over our customers
to the Germans. We may be beaten by our own weapons, by workers who were ..."
3. Bradbury's Workmen's Compensation and State Insurance Law by Harry Bower Bradbury (1914)
"Inability to get employment due to slackness of work. An injured workman in
receipt of part wages and reduced compensation is not entitled to a restoration ..."
4. The Englishman in Kansas: Or, Squatter Life and Border Warfare by Thomas H. Gladstone (1857)
"slackness of the Law.—Singular Use of Judicial Power. IN consequence of the
removal of the Houses of Legislature from the place he had designated as the ..."
5. The Lombard Communes: A History of the Republics of North Italy by William Francis Thomas Butler (1906)
"This slackness was deemed by many to be due to a want of loyalty to the League
amongst the consuls of the city ; and though the people, indignant at what ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1876)
"The slackness of immigration for the past two years has had some effect in staying
the decline of farm wages, and this cause will probably continue to ..."
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