slack-handed

Careless and inactive; lacking focus or initiative.

Their warmth stirred her up to be so busy and laudably benevolent; perhaps if he had been away she might have been idle and slack-handed; but I do not know.

It was the fate of the Creoles—possibly a climatic result—to be slack-handed and dilatory.

Done carelessly; slapdash.

Solomon had a thorough contempt for slothful, slack-handed farming, and lost no opportunity of giving drowsy ignorance a view of its own deformity, and its own certain fate.

On the whole a great deal of slack-handed service was put up with.

Having or done with hands that are slack.

She motions with the needle across the station to the paralysed, slack-handed clock.

The gun jiggled in a slack-handed grip, but the trigger finger looked tight.

Done with hands or wrists that are slack.

No less stunned, I stood there, too, slack-handed, empty of thought.

Gallyon took his glass and held it slack-handed, elbow resting on the arm of his chair.

Idly or carelessly.

Yet they sit slack-handed, doing nothing about it, unable to agree even among themselves.

If I told her the same thing she only giggled and said, "Yessum," and then, slack-handed, went right ahead and ironed a dozen wrinkles into the simplest piece.

A collection of slack-handed people.

But what saith the wise man of the sluggards and slack-handed, in so favourable an opportunity ?

But you see, sir," turning to me, " I'm not one as has been brought up among the slack-handed of these days.