1 The firm had been run rather slackly.

2 Her arms hung slackly by her sides.

3 Purse-strings, whether tightly or slackly held, tend faithfully to trace lines of power.

4 He had been writing slackly.

5 His left arm hung slackly and his hand trembled a good deal.

6 Few of them were caused by melancholy to sit staring slackly into the middle distance.

7 He was a short, florid man, normally very fat, now very thin, the skin of his paunch hanging slackly in folds.

8 It would be charitable to think that Bloom writes as slackly and cack-handedly as he does because he is out to attract the general reader.