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Meanings of flabbiness in English

Catalan
flacciditat
Spanish
flojedad

A flabby softness.

flacciditat
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Examples for "limpness"
Examples for "limpness"
1
The left arm hung with that limpness which denotes a broken bone.
A Pagan of the Hills
2
Nicholas had none of the moral limpness and vacillating character of his predecessor.
Russia
3
He could look with righteous toleration upon the limpness of his fellow prisoner.
The Trail of the White Mule
4
Possibly his confidence is to be ascribed to the limpness of their attitudes.
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
5
Her own was warm, and there was no limpness about it.
T. Tembarom
1
It sank, excused for the flaccidity by Nataly's want of common adventurous daring.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 2
2
Besides, inquiries concerning the health of cow- punchers were not only superfluous, but bordered on flaccidity.
Heart of the West
3
His very malevolence proceeded from a flaccidity which meanly envied the activities and enthusiasms of other men.
English Literature: Modern
4
Nor need we fear that the result of this would be any flaccidity of conviction, or lethargy in act.
On Compromise
5
But Governments are beset by an even greater danger, which the learned might call "flaccidity" and the simple-"flabbiness.
Prime Ministers and Some Others: A Book of Reminiscences
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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