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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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        Examples for "soft"
        1
        The ground is currently described as good, good to soft in places.
        The Guardian
        2
        Police have so far taken a relatively soft approach to the unrest.
        News.com.au
        3
        The wind blows soft; the sky is blue; the sun shines bright
        The New McGuffey First Reader
        4
        We made easy mistakes, which ultimately gave Ireland soft scores, said McGeechan.
        The Irish Times
        5
        Come morning light with soft-lit powers to awaken love that's ever sure.
        The Notebook
        1
        Note the flaccid paunch, the withered top, and the foolish, hysterical face.
        Raemaekers' Cartoons: With Accompanying Notes by Well-known Engl...
        2
        Though they were not large their flaccid bluntness made them seem clumsy.
        The maltese falcon
        3
        A flaccid Scotch egg and a tooth-shattering pastie were often cradled home.
        The Irish Times
        4
        The larva, at first plump and active, suddenly becomes flaccid and inert.
        More Hunting Wasps
        5
        He multiplied his intellectual force by detaching from it all flaccid interests.
        The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
        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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