slackness
s lak nuhs
- n weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy
- n the quality of being loose (not taut)
he hadn't counted on the slackness of the rope - n the quality of being lax and neglectful
- He fought slackness in his men, sometimes seemed even to consider death a kind of slackness.
- In the violence of its mood and the slackness of its method, in its surface disillusionment and its underlying disgust, in its fierce, fanged biteyet its biting off more than .
- His Bourne is a man of three expressions: going blank, which gives his features the slackness of a new corpse; showing wariness of imminent danger or unmasking, like a naughty .