slackly

“Sorry About the Demon” is too slackly paced and there’s a broad tone to the jokes and performances that skews corny.

Williams later took every opportunity to dismiss his first novel, and you can see why: it is slackly written and deficient in narrative technique.

Her brow was beaded with perspiration now, her mouth was slackly open, and she was still paler than she had been in the dining room.

Elsewhere, “men lay slackly in the shade, laid out seemingly at random, as though some act of violence had only just occurred.”

However, some acts are slackly paced, and linger too long before ramping up to the big “ta-da!” moments.