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Meanings of flaccid in English
Synonyms
Examples for "soft"
Examples for "soft"
1
The ground is currently described as good, good to soft in places.
2
Police have so far taken a relatively soft approach to the unrest.
3
The wind blows soft; the sky is blue; the sun shines bright
4
We made easy mistakes, which ultimately gave Ireland soft scores, said McGeechan.
5
Come morning light with soft-lit powers to awaken love that's ever sure.
1
Unfortunately she's not at all the flabby sort of person you'd expect.
2
In the past, that's led to charges of running flabby balance sheets.
3
The newly hired girl wreathed her flabby face in a vacuous smile.
4
She was stocky, but in a powerful rather than a flabby way.
5
The flabby hand laid the weapon in Crozier's lean and strenuous fingers.
Usage of flaccid in English
1
Note the flaccid paunch, the withered top, and the foolish, hysterical face.
2
Though they were not large their flaccid bluntness made them seem clumsy.
3
A flaccid Scotch egg and a tooth-shattering pastie were often cradled home.
4
The larva, at first plump and active, suddenly becomes flaccid and inert.
5
He multiplied his intellectual force by detaching from it all flaccid interests.
6
He had stiffened his flaccid will and spurred his trembling body forward.
7
There was greenish discolouring of the skin and the bodies were flaccid.
8
On the contrary, it would render us nerveless, flabby, flaccid, and inert.
9
He collected more waterskins from where they hung flaccid from his saddle.
10
How flaccid in muscle, how narrow in intelligence, how shallow in affection!
11
Pressing him to me, the flesh of his chest feels soft, flaccid.
12
Indeed, such a flaccid, fluid, pouchy carcass, I have never before seen.
13
Debbie's face was flaccid, the jaw limp, the eyelids only partially closed.
14
Apparently, she saw his flaccid state as some sort of challenge.
15
He has become pliant in will, feeble in purpose, and flaccid in character.
16
She read only in his flaccid features the sad history of the past.
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Flaccid through the time
Flaccid across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common