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

Nor need we fear that the result of this would be any flaccidity of conviction, or lethargy in act.

From On Compromise by Morley, John

This delight not in action or in emotion arising from action but in passivity of suffering is only one aspect of a certain mental flaccidity in grain.

From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by Mair, G. H. (George Herbert)

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 Russell, George William Erskine