slackerishly

English

Etymology

From slackerish +‎ -ly.

Adverb

slackerishly (comparative more slackerishly, superlative most slackerishly)

  1. In a slackerish (lazy, idle) manner; lazily, indolently.
    • 1994 February 24, Bob Strauss, “'Reality Bites' shows Generation X struggling in today's job market”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch‎[1], volume 116, number 55, St. Louis, M.O.: Pulitzer, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3G, column 1:
      As conformist and inarticulate as the other man vying for Lelaina's affections — her roommate Troy (Ethan Hawke), who slackerishly fronts a grunge band — is caustically rebellious, Michael can at least help her career.
    • 2016, Alison Young, Street Art World‎[2], London: Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 60:
      What stayed longer with me was the clever undecidability of the work — the question slackerishly posed in its title — and the way it gestured towards 'the street'.
    • 2025 August 17, Elizabeth Spiers, “Generation X Needs to Stop Complaining”, in The New York Times‎[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 August 2025:
      In theory, these X-ers were well aware that their parents were probably going to be better off than they themselves would ever be and couldn't decide whether to be angry about it pre-emptively or to just slackerishly opt out of the corporate and political structures that led to it altogether.
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