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Meanings of flabbiness in English

Catalan
flacciditat
Spanish
flojedad

A flabby softness.

flacciditat
Usage of flabbiness in English
1
Austria was already blaming us for flabbiness and we could not flinch.
History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's...
2
I think I am changed in some stern spiritual way-stripped of flabbiness.
Carry On: Letters in War-Time
3
A careless, spasmodic hurrying and retarding leads only to flabbiness and inconsequence.
Essentials in Conducting
4
How did they rid themselves of their civilian flabbiness and acquire it?
The Glory of the Trenches
5
Now, Ben, there's nothing wrong with your bare body, barring a certain flabbiness.
The Gods Themselves
6
The coarseness, the flabbiness, the purplish hues were no longer there.
The Rose in the Ring
7
Note the shape of his head, the flabbiness of his ears.
Letter of the Law
8
I have spoken of the impression of flabbiness which this man Blessington conveyed.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Ho...
9
He was a great soft lump of a man, a giant of flabbiness.
The Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River Country
10
That argues a shameful flabbiness of the moral fibre, doesn't it?
The Gates of Chance
11
And all the lines in her face, the flabbiness, the wrinkles.
Brave New World
12
The flabbiness of Broadway cannot be washed out of the soul in a month.
Steve Yeager
13
He was growing stout and soft, and there was unwonted flabbiness in his muscles.
Burning Daylight
14
They have absolutely no savor of softness or moral flabbiness.
Sermons on Biblical Characters
15
Strychnine is a grand tonic, Kemp, to take the flabbiness out of a man.
The Invisible Man
16
He was a big man, powerful for all his flabbiness.
In a gilded cage
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