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Meanings of flabby in English

Out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance.

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Usage of flabby in English
1
Unfortunately she's not at all the flabby sort of person you'd expect.
The best early stories of f. scott fitzgerald
2
In the past, that's led to charges of running flabby balance sheets.
Reuters
3
The newly hired girl wreathed her flabby face in a vacuous smile.
Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
4
She was stocky, but in a powerful rather than a flabby way.
Seveneves
5
The flabby hand laid the weapon in Crozier's lean and strenuous fingers.
You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deser...
6
This in the toast-rack is so soft and flabby-dolet me, Hilda.
A Young Mutineer
7
The flabby individual wiped his forehead and signed to a trembling assistant.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917
8
Dear friend, these people are flabby and cowardly; they have no heart.
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1
9
It grows pale and anæmic and its tissues become soft and flabby.
The Care and Feeding of Children / A Catechism for the Use of Mo...
10
Wrinkles had formed in her superabundant flesh, now grown pallid and flabby.
The Two Brothers
11
He had become too flabby-physicallyand mentally-throughliving too long in space.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
12
His hands that drummed idly against the couch were white and flabby.
The Web of Life
13
Your mind can get flabby when you get to be my age.
Monster Blood
14
It can seem they have an inbuilt detestation for ordinary, flabby humanity.
The Irish Times
15
In this fine airs, she can be flabby-pale but for one reason.
Poor Miss Finch
16
Puffy and reddened and flabby-faced, leaking and whining: they all did it.
Career of Evil
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