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Meanings of limpness in English

Catalan
flacciditat
Spanish
flojedad

A flabby softness.

flacciditat
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Examples for "flabbiness"
Examples for "flabbiness"
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
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 limpness in English
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
6
But his limpness seemed to impart itself to me, and I- Igaveway.
A Pair of Patient Lovers
7
My arms were weak and of a strange, flabby limpness, but they moved.
The Firefly of France
8
But when she sought to rise, she sank back with an ominous limpness.
Bloom of Cactus
9
It showed in the limpness of his face, the tightness of his body.
Way Station
10
She lay in a horrid heap unmistakable in its limpness.
The Unwilling Vestal
11
I freely confess to my own inaction and limpness; but it was all deliberate.
The Lost Continent
12
Then the limpness became softness, and the very creases took the lines of beauty.
Wives and Daughters
13
Other symptoms include difficulty with breathing or breast-feeding and limpness.
Reuters
14
For a while he was aware only of exhaustion, limpness.
Gather, Darkness!
15
Her daughter's stillness went beyond the limpness of infant sleep.
The strain
16
The conditioning broke in heavily, forced me into impact-ready limpness-
Broken angels
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Limpness through the time