slack-twistedadj.
Of a rope: Not tightly twisted. Hence figurative, of a loose, unsatisfactory character; lazy, inactive.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [adjective]
sweerc725
foridledc1230
idlea1300
faintc1325
recrayed1340
slewful1340
nicea1398
sleuthya1400
delicate?c1400
sleuthfulc1400
slothfulc1400
sloth1412
lurdanc1480
luskinga1500
luskish15..
droning1509
bumbard?a1513
slottery1513
desidiousa1540
lazy1549
slovening1549
truanta1550
sleuth1567
litherly1573
truantly1579
dronish1580
lubberly1580
truant-like1583
shiftless1584
sluggard1594
fat1598
lusky1604
sweatless1606
clumse1611
easeful1611
loselly1611
do-littlea1613
sluggardisha1627
pigritious1638
drony1653
murcid1656
thokisha1682
shammockinga1704
indolent1710
huddroun1721
nothing-doing1724
desidiose1727
lusk1775
slack-twisted1794
sweert1817
bone-lazya1825
lurgy1828
straight-backed1830
do-nothing1832
slobbish1833
bone idle1836
slouch1837
lotophagous1841
shammocky1841
bein1847
thoky1847
lotus-eating1852
fainéant1855
sluggardly1865
lazy-boned1875
do-naught1879
easy-going1879
lazyish1892
slobbed1962
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 56 Slack-laid means slack-twisted.
1802 Sporting Mag. 20 292 The slack-twisted operations of a certain pack of hounds.
1887 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries 12 16 One Dr. Barlow, a notable trimmer even in those slack-twisted times.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. v. 61 Durbeyfield was what was locally called a slack-twisted fellow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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adj.1794