slacker
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The prototypical Gen Xer is resilient and cynical, a “latchkey kid” turned disaffected slacker, raised on MTV and limited parental supervision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The line became one of Tolkan’s most famous, and mega-fans would flock to Comic-Cons around the country to ask the star to call them a slacker, requests he typically obliged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
After years of trying to make it as an actor, Mazino got his breakout role in the 2023 limited series “Beef,” where he portrays a slacker who falls for his older brother’s road-rage nemesis.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2025
That realisation manifests in the lovestruck slacker rock of Dragonfly, and the finger-plucked Neptune Baby, with its refrain, "I'm a boat, and you are the water".
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025
My dad looks at me from head to toe, and I feel like the second-rate slacker he’s always taken me for.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
These are the people cranking up productivity, impressing managers and making the rest of us look like slackers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
Jimmy Buffett celebrated slackers before the word existed, even though he was hardly one himself.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2023
Now you've made the rest of us, except maybe Beyoncé, feel like real slackers.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2023
By contrast, as we jump back in time, her sons come off as a pair of nihilistic slackers.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
They were motivated, and even the slackers began working hard.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
