flaccidity
Example Sentences
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Evaluating the parlous flaccidity of our schools, James Traub thinks we’re in big trouble—but he also finds reason for hope.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The lack of muscle tone, known as hypotonicity or flaccidity, may indicate that the LMN is not conducting action potentials that will keep a basal level of acetylcholine in the neuromuscular junction.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Who has not marked, where the full cheek should be, Incipient lines of lank flaccidity, Lymphatic pallor where the pink should glow, And where the throb of transport, pulses low?
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
Broken through the upper part of the stem, the listless flower drooped its petals towards the earth, and seemed to mourn their chastity, already sullied by the wan flaccidity of decay.
From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett
People noticed that he repeated himself; they discovered poverty of ideas, flaccidity, and faults of construction in his later pieces.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
