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
His very malevolence proceeded from a flaccidity which meanly envied the activities and enthusiasms of other men.
From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by G. H. (George Herbert) Mair
But Governments are beset by an even greater danger, which the learned might call "flaccidity" and the simple—"flabbiness."
From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by George William Erskine Russell
Highly placed and highly paid flaccidity then reigned supreme, and produced its inevitable result.
From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by George William Erskine Russell
