slackish

comparative more slackish · superlative most slackish

1. Somewhat slack.

   A slackish kicking strap allows the top of the mainsail to fall off forward in the heaviest gusts.

   2009, Eric Twiname, Start to Win: The Classic Text, →ISBN, page 106

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   He is shabbily smart, and looks what he is, a slackish, hard-drinking unsuccessful man of forty-two.

   2001, J. B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls and Other Plays, →ISBN

   In ordinary language perceived events and movements can both be described in the same language, using spatial, temporal, and nonspatiotemporal concepts as well. We see movements that are short, large, fast, hasty, or slackish—and we can perform such movements as well.

   2016, Herbert Heuer, Andries Sanders, Perspectives on Perception and Action, →ISBN, page 65