Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being flabby; flaccidity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality or state of being flabby.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The characteristic or quality of being
flabby
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a flabby softness
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Examples
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He did not know that what he called her flabbiness was the inertia in which they stored their strength, nor that in them there remained a vigilant and indestructible soul, biding its time, holding its own against maternity, making more and more for self-protection, for assertion, for supremacy.
The Combined Maze May Sinclair 1904
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We may thrill with dread at the aggressive hyphenate, but this tame flabbiness is accepted as Americanization.
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We may thrill with dread at the aggressive hyphenate, but this tame flabbiness is accepted as Americanization.
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Page 36 men "with a direct view to gaining a livelihood;" Barrett Wendell wrote in the North American Review in 1904 on "Our National Superstition" in which he pointed to the "flabbiness" of college students.
Undergraduate Work and the University of North Carolina 1934
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In London, at a distance from all this tragedy of courage, I felt that I had slipped back to a lower plane; a kind of flabbiness was creeping into my blood -- the old selfish fear of life and love of comfort.
Carry On Letters in War-Time Coningsby Dawson 1921
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"the invert" - was generally believed to be in-born and to usually (but not always) be accompanied by external signs, such as flabbiness, particularly of the posterior (as in urning photos in the medical literature of a century ago).
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The clarity of his writing makes it easy to see the flabbiness of his arguments, but he's far from the worst offender.
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He was growing stout and soft, and there was unwonted flabbiness in his muscles.
Chapter X 2010
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And she looked great in them, her soft, flabbiness gone and replaced by a chiseled musculature he wasn't at all used to.
Curb Appeal Ann Wahlman 2011
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Some readers may feel a prickling of unease at the possibility that the pleasant laxity of modern mores—in language, dress and eating habits—might contribute to a flabbiness of will on bigger matters.
The Will in the World Cordelia Fine 2011
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