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
There’s no method here that will render it crispy and browned, and no one wants to cut through flabby chicken skin.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2025
They are short, tall, flabby, lean, clean-shaven, bearded, bald and pony-tailed.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
He staggered through her open door, wrapped her in his flabby arms, and whirled her around and around the room, whooping so incoherently that Sansa understood not a word of it.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
We are getting better at understanding the innovation landscape – though innovation has always had a soft underbelly and right now there is a kind of gold rush here, making it all a little flabbier.
From Forbes ● Jul. 27, 2011
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
