Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a flabby manner.

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  • adverb In a flabby manner.

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  • adverb In a flabby manner

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  • adverb in a flabby manner

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Examples

  • He giggled flabbily, and sat down in a steamer chair.

    THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS 2010

  • Many intellectuals of the Left were flabbily pacifist up to 1935, shrieked for war against Germany in the years 1935-9, and then promptly cooled off when the war started.

    Those crazy intellectuals 2010

  • If you want to see flabbily gaseous political campaigning resting on a random meaningless event look at Blair on the Bulger case.

    Got Carried Away Newmania 2008

  • If you want to see flabbily gaseous political campaigning resting on a random meaningless event look at Blair on the Bulger case.

    Archive 2008-04-06 Newmania 2008

  • Getty Images Saying it can double the savings it offered up just a few months ago could give the impression that Bud has been flabbily run up to now.

    Ordering Up a Lighter Bud 2008

  • The flabbily worded Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), rushed through Congress on September 18, 2001, gave the President his carte blanche:

    The Prisoners Speak Raban, Jonathan 2006

  • As I saw him that afternoon he was a very slovenly, ungainly little human being indeed, not only was his clothing altogether ugly and queer, but had you stripped the man stark, you would certainly have seen in the bulging paunch that comes from flabby muscles and flabbily controlled appetites, and in the rounded shoulders and flawed and yellowish skin, the same failure of any effort toward clean beauty.

    In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

  • Last but not least -- knowing the story beforehand just punctured the third act, and let all the tension hiss out flabbily.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006

  • She was a flabbily pretty, weakly flirtatious woman of forty-two or three, in an atrocious flowery hat.

    Babbit 2004

  • Suits which looked worn and glossless while they were still new, flabbily draped on dummies like corpses with painted cheeks.

    Main Street 2004

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