flabby
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But if poetry is about saying a lot in a little—the fine art of distillation—then by the end of its two-hour runtime “A Poet” comes off more like funny but flabby prose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
In a speech last week Sir Keir Starmer promised to make the "flabby" state more efficient and cut bureaucracy.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025
At a hefty 2 hours and 24 minutes, the film is flabby, not jacked, and lacking in an unpredictable live-wire element.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
She then placed a plate on the table that consisted of flabby, unappetizing bacon with a few char marks…
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023
This smarted a little, and Amarante croaked a string of feeble curses as he limped around in the road, amazed by what a flabby uncoordinated old geezer he had become.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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
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
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
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 George Gissing
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