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Careless and inactive; lacking focus or initiative. / Done carelessly; slapdash. / Having or done with hands that are slack.

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slack-handed

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Source Word

slack-handed

Japanese Meaning

不注意で無気力な；気力や積極性が不足している / ずさんでいい加減な；行動や作業が適当である / 手の動きがだらしない；手を適切に使えていない

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The slack-handed manager repeatedly missed deadlines and ignored his team's concerns.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

注意散漫でやる気のない管理者は何度も締め切りを逃し、チームの懸念を無視した。

Sense（1）

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.

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Sense（2）

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.

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Sense（3）

Having or done with hands that are slack.

She motions with the needle across the station to the paralysed, slack-handed clock.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

more slack-handed

（ comparative ）

most slack-handed

（ superlative ）

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