How to Use slacker in a Sentence

slacker

noun

• The people I work with are a bunch of slackers.
• The story of three slackers who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of jail.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 20 Apr. 2020
• Samberg plays a slacker stuck in a time loop that forces him to relive the same day over and over.
  — Star Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021
• Joe is just a hack and a slacker who everyone loves to hate.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 14 Sep. 2023
• The first one that often comes to mind is slacking off or slackers.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 26 June 2017
• Now, Elvis Costello has pulled off something to make even a stunt like that seem like the stuff of slackers.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
• Back in the 1990s, they were called the slacker generation: that’s right, Gen X.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 8 June 2023
• This new Dublin-set show about a 33-year-old slacker who lives with his mom and is obsessed with his ex, should do the trick.
  — Jeanne Jakle, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Apr. 2021
• One tester has been noise-free and one degree slacker for nearly a year.
  — Outside Online, 27 May 2022
• In some circles, a researcher who was always out of the door at 5 pm would be seen as a slacker.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2016
• No one here is a slacker; everyone’s on top of their game.
  — Aiyana Ishmael, Glamour, 20 Oct. 2022
• The slacker teen in me thinks complacency gets a bad rap.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 4 May 2021
• Introduce him to your slacker 37-year-old who still lives at home 6.
  — oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2021
• But this isn't simply new episodes of the 1993 MTV series about two dense slacker teens in Texas that ran for eight seasons.
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 1 July 2020
• Mallratz, a forest green, riffs on the 1995 slacker hit that cycled through Poole's VCR.
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2018
• Reynolds has nothing but love for his time as slacker med student Berg.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 July 2024
• Stephen Malkmus, the slacker anti-hero of the 1990s indie scene, is that rare creature: An old man who can still rock.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 4 June 2018
• No slacker, Kafera will graduate in the top 10 percent of her class with a weighted 4.0 GPA.
  — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 16 Nov. 2019
• Its name is derived from the regional Visayan slang word for slacker.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 29 July 2024
• The film chronicles the lives and loves of four slackety-slack-slack-slackers in early-nineties Houston.
  — Rebecca Schuman, Longreads, 28 Mar. 2018
• Their name exudes the essence of an idler and slacker, but women’s loafers themselves are quite the opposite.
  — Gaby Keiderling, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Jan. 2023
• Your tights, your shirts, your sports bras: all pathetic slackers!
  — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 24 June 2019
• His version of fatherhood manages to stand out in the sea of slacker sitcom dads.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 15 June 2019
• Still, the Honda Pilot, newly designed for 2023, is far from a slacker.
  — James Raia, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
• But her slacker-ish mother turns out to be reliable and wise when called upon.
  — Clare McHugh, Time, 5 Apr. 2018
• In his one tough scene as a slacker who turns the tables on Allison, Alex Wolff is terrific.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• At one point a trio of good-natured twenty-something slackers set up camp about 10 yards away from her little crew.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
• My Name is Earl (Hulu) A slacker wins the the lottery and decides to right all the wrongs from his past with his newfound realization.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 19 Mar. 2020
• And here in Boston, no one’s ever accused us of being slackers.
  — Dugan Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• Many people still view cannabis users as unmotivated slackers, content to waste their days in a haze of smoke.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024