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Slackly   Listen
adverb
Slackly  adv.  In a slack manner.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Slackly" Quotes from Famous Books



... and sank back slackly in his chair. "Victory!" he said, a note of inextinguishable irony in his voice. "A victory I'd have given five years of my life for last March. Yet I could go on winning them—a whole succession of them—and they could lead me to ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

... according to the art or attention of the housewife. Dyeing is an art wholly unknown to them. The women are very expert at platting, which is usually done with three threads of sinew; if greater strength is required, several of these are twisted slackly together, as in the bowstrings. The quickness with which some of the women plat is really surprising; and it is well that they do so, for the quantity required for the bows alone would otherwise occupy half the year ...
— Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the • Sir William Edward Parry



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