flabby
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Meanwhile the narrator’s financially devious husband appears as a vulture with “the brooding eye, the blood-tipped beak, the flabby folds of flesh” of a bird of prey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
In a speech last week Sir Keir Starmer promised to make the "flabby" state more efficient and cut bureaucracy.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025
The central mystery is flabby and uncompelling and it feels obligatory at best, a real-estate scandal offering a loose background in front of which these actors play.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
At every life stage, it has stretched a system that was often too small to accommodate it, leaving it somewhat flabby and misshapen in its wake.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2024
She had small piggy eyes, a sunken mouth, and one of those white flabby faces that looked exactly as though it had been boiled.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
The new ones are flabbier, slacker, with long periods of strangely self-regarding, even aimless conducting.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2022
That’s heavier than a whole ass Honda Civic, bulkier than a Subaru BRZ, flabbier than a Ford Fiesta.
From The Verge ● Feb. 16, 2022
She looked flabbier around the middle, her skin didn't glisten as much, and the sparkle in her eyes dimmed.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2021
“New Girl” star Jake Johnson voices a flabbier and depressed Peter Parker who wears sweat pants and is going through a divorce to Mary Jane.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 10, 2018
He was wound up as tight as a spring, and I thought that any second he might pounce on Dusty Muleman, who was smaller and flabbier.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
The sessions with Ezra, however, are the flabbiest part of this lengthy film.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2021
Moreover, during Broadway's flabbiest theater season in years and a week when one play closed after opening night and another should have.
From Time Magazine Archive
The winter wilderness, once the province of a few hardy sportsmen, now opens up to even the flabbiest American with the newest things in snow-gadgetry.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the sight of Will, he endeavoured to smile, and his handshake, though the flabbiest possible, was meant for a cordial response to the young man's heartiness.
From Will Warburton by Gissing, George
