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Answer for the clue "Like many a slacker ", 11 letters:
unmotivated

Word definitions for unmotivated in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Lacking motivation, without impetus to strive or excel.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. without motivation [ant: motivated ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"lacking in motivation," by 1917, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of motivate . Meaning "lacking in motive" is attested from 1871. Unmotived is from 1794.

Usage examples of unmotivated.

Pottawatomie killings seem equally unmotivated by neglecting to tell that the violence in Kansas had hitherto been perpetrated primarily by the proslavery side.

Some unmotivated, vodka-soaked munition worker in Volgograd had done something wrong, and Ben Tyson was alive for the time being.

Gavin, who had drifted past the other booths in a kind of mind-blasted euphoria, unimpressed and unmotivated, hesitated in front of this blatant disregard for the proprieties.

Mikayla badly raised, stupid, lazy, unmotivated, and totally unworthy to be Archimage.

Most of all he suspected the surly farmer Walter Brown, who lived alone on a run-down hillside place near the deep woods, and who was often seen loafing around corners in Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, Newfane, and South Londonderry in the most inexplicable and seemingly unmotivated way.

Rather, Ben thought of young Toby, the unmotivated teenager whom he’d mentored and galvanized, whose potential he’d helped unleash.