flabby

Example Sentences

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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

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

When the anthology film “Twilight Zone: The Movie” opened on June 24, 1983, reviews were mixed; The New York Times’s Vincent Canby deemed it “a flabby, mini-minded behemoth,” and that was a fairly representative view.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2023

Blue eyes shone through an otherwise pitiful face, flabby and flushed.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner