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

Instead of a skeleton and scales, the blobfish has a soft body and flabby skin.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2025

They are short, tall, flabby, lean, clean-shaven, bearded, bald and pony-tailed.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2024

About a year and a half ago, it occurred to me that if I didn’t start working out again, I’d be sliding into a sloppy, flabby late middle age.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2024

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck