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flabby

[flab-ee] / ˈflæb i /


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But if poetry is about saying a lot in a little—the fine art of distillation—then by the end of its two-hour runtime “A Poet” comes off more like funny but flabby prose.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 29, 2026

Instead of a skeleton and scales, the blobfish has a soft body and flabby skin.

From BBC Mar. 19, 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

Across the road, I’d spotted a flabby, gray-striped tabby who never left one particular window.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

The new ones are flabbier, slacker, with long periods of strangely self-regarding, even aimless conducting.

From New York Times May 26, 2022

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

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

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

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

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




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