Slacking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLACKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SLACK, to slacken
• loosen (something, especially a rope)
• decrease or reduce in intensity, quantity, or speed
• work slowly or lazily
• slake (lime)
NOUN:
• the part of a rope or line which is not held taut; the loose or unused part
• casual trousers
• a spell of inactivity or laziness
• coal dust or small pieces of coal
• the evasion of work or duty
ADJECTIVE:
• not taut or held tightly in position; loose
• (of business or trade) characterized by a lack of work or activity; quiet
• slow or sluggish
• having or showing laziness or negligence
• lewd
• (typically of a woman) promiscuous.
• (of a tide) neither ebbing nor flowing

Words related to SLACKING

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Words that contain SLACKING

forslacking21 foreslacking22

How to use SLACKING in a sentence

• Slacking only to be slacked, cars dart off the road and up a gravel driveway that encircles Claxton Inn like a lariat swung, then park themselves among the trees, lights dimmed.
• In the trenches there are workers who have broken with the old slacking and sabotage, and there are prospective leaders who have forgotten profit.
• The beauty of the last hour of light is upon that crescent of sea, and the ships loll upon the long strand, the tapering masts and slacking ropes vanish upon the pallid sky.
• At last, hoisting the reefed mainsail and slacking off a few of the hard-won feet of the chain, we sailed the anchor out.
• We went careening along hill-sides without even slacking the trot.
• Fortunately, he was securely hooked, and there was no drop out from the slacking of the line.
• Without slacking his speed in the least Ken leaped into the air headlong for the base.
• I was sure that an invisible person must have shot at us, and wished sincerely that the Prince would drive on instead of slacking pace.
• Do not change the elevation of the bar without slacking up on the ropes.
• It can be starved by crop failures, by war waste or by labor slacking on the job.
• If labor should try slacking, as it did in Russia, the economic state would starve to death and the workers die with it.
• Slacking in production has the same effect as crop failure.
• They fought day and night, shoulder to shoulder, never yielding, never despairing, never slacking.
• The calculation was close enough, and when the warrior came loping along, slacking his pace to cross the ravine, Will rose and fired.
• I shook out the reins and let the horse go, urging with cluck and spur, never slacking for rock or hill or swale.
• The train was slacking up as it steamed into the big, arched station.
• No more charity from his father! No more slacking, no more giving way! He had an aim in life now.

Similar words containing SLACK without suffix ing

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