slacker

Example Sentences

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“You’re a slacker. You remind me of your father when he went here. He was a slacker, too.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

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

Ripley, a slacker and a con man grinding out a living in postwar New York, is sent to Italy to try to persuade a trust-funded idler to come home and take over the family business.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024

“Dark Ride” is the story of how a committed slacker learns to give a damn and the tremendous price he pays for doing so.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2023

McCandless wasn’t some feckless slacker, adrift and confused, racked by existential despair.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer