slackery

When all intelligent influences and organizations are working as never before to obtain the biggest possible product from the soil, does it not seem slackery of the worst sort for any one who has, or can get a patch of tillable soil, or can manage to squeeze out a half hour, morning or evening, for seeding or weeding, to neglect the opportunity to serve.

1917, Mary Fanton Roberts, The Touchstone, page 141

It was especially had for Cheever, whose family took a dim view of New Deal slackery, and whose own Yankee scruples were such that— four decades later, blessedly solvent—he'd try to return his first Social Security check.

2009, Blake Bailey, Cheever, Vintage, →ISBN, page 94

Starbucks is nice, but I would suggest choosing a local place to stake out as your home base, because the few remaining local shops will do even more to accommodate your slackery.

2009, Phil Villarreal, Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel: 100 Dirty Little Money-Grubbing Secrets, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

A few weeks later, at my new OB/GYN's office, I overheard a slackery teenage girl on the phone to her friend.

2003, Naomi Wolf, Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood, Anchor, →ISBN, page 32