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

She then placed a plate on the table that consisted of flabby, unappetizing bacon with a few char marks…

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2023

“Ho hum,” Ignatius yawned, exhibiting the flabby pink of his tongue.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole