Sentence examples for slack about from inspiring English sources

'slack about' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is mostly used as an adjective to indicate that someone is being lazy or not working hard. Example: "My brother had been quite slack about his job recently."

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Drivers are slack about seat belts and child-seats are rarer still.

Mac DeMarco might have a slacker reputation, but there's nothing slack about his output.

Age has softened the feline planes of her face, though there is nothing slack about her self-possession.

By contrast, there was nothing slack about an arrangement of "Salt Peanuts" by Mr. Mahanthappa, who has lately specialized in a serious jazz engagement with Indian music.

Rashad Khalifa, growing ever more serious about his faith and his scholarship, even cut Sam slack about his fealty to Islam.

André and his acolytes may be pretentious and self-dramatizing, but there is nothing slack about them, or about this film.

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Women dressed in black shirts and slacks move about silently, mixing oils and green-tea essences for massage treatments.

"Roast Chicken," however, was first published a few years ago in England, where they're slacker about such things.

He is mild-mannered and as square as AAA, but there is something of the slacker about him, something that seems oddly at home in a job that can resemble a nationwide scavenger hunt.

I've been hard on Slacker about how delayed its portable player has been.

However, if you want to be caring, you can think more about cutting people some slack, and about maintaining positive, healthy relationships instead of fighting all the time.

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