slack
adjective
not tight, taut, firm, or tense;
slackest
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superlativeof slack.superlative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating the greatest degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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The UK has the slackest regulation of all EU members; other member states are much more stringent in their approach.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2013
It was the most abstract and highly changeable concert I’ve seen this group perform, and also the slackest: inspired on one level, frustrating on another.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2011
In the weeks before Christmas, when retail sales are usually at their highest, retailers were cutting prices as though it were slackest of seasons.
From Time Magazine Archive
In any year it would have been a tasteful, artful job of the soft sell, but in this, television's slackest season, the Eastern Airlines commercial looked like a masterwork.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I was going to say that my practice could get along very well for a day or two, since it is the slackest time in the year."
From The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
