English Dictionary

slack-handed

形容詞

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

日本語の意味

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

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

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。

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（3）

Having or done with hands that are slack.

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

more slack-handed （ comparative ）

most slack-handed （ superlative ）