slack-handed
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
副词 adv.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A collection of slack-handed people.
— But what saith the wise man of the sluggards and slack-handed, in so favourable an opportunity ?
形容词 adj.
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Careless and inactive; lacking focus or initiative.
— Their warmth stirred her up to be so busy and laudably benevolent; perhaps if he had been away she might have been idle and slack-handed; but I do not know.
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Done carelessly; slapdash.
— Solomon had a thorough contempt for slothful, slack-handed farming, and lost no opportunity of giving drowsy ignorance a view of its own deformity, and its own certain fate.
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Having or done with hands that are slack.
— She motions with the needle across the station to the paralysed, slack-handed clock.
副词 adv.
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Done with hands or wrists that are slack.
— No less stunned, I stood there, too, slack-handed, empty of thought.
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Idly or carelessly.
— Yet they sit slack-handed, doing nothing about it, unable to agree even among themselves.
词形变化
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From slack + handed.
词源 2
From slack + handed.
词源 3
From slack + handed.
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