Slackness synonyms

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negligence
(Law, uncountable) The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation.
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laxness
The property of being lax, lacking strictness.
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remissness
The characteristic of being remiss; carelessness; negligence; tardiness.
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laxity
The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.
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lassitude
Lassitude is defined as a feeling of lethargy or a lack of mental or physical energy.
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lethargy
A lack of energy or vigor; sluggishness.
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insolence (related)
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imprudence (related)
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obstinacy (related)
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careful (related)
The state or quality of being negligent
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slack
(Countable) A tidal marsh or shallow, that periodically fills and drains.
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inanition
(Philosophy) A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to the Existentialist Philosophy state of "nausea".
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Slackness Sentence Examples

  • She was disappointed at first at the slackness of discipline, but she appears afterwards to have accommodated herself with tolerable success to the worldliness of her environment, though not without intervals of religious misgiving.

  • They had left Murano owing to slackness of trade, but had been recalled, and appealed to the Council of Ten in Venice to be allowed to complete their contract in London.

  • The Scottish Jacobites were left in ignorance of the French attempt to land in the mouth of the Thames (February - March 1744), an effort frustrated by a disastrous tempest, and by the slackness of the English conspirators.

  • A long and eloquent letter to Burghley 2 throws additional light upon his character, and gives a hint as to the cause of his uncle's slackness in promoting him.

  • He did, however, succeed in undoing all the work of his ancestors5 partly by his own slackness and sloth, partly by his choice of corrupt and treacherous ministers.

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