Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
flaccidness . - noun A disease of silkworms, due to fermentation of the food in the intestinal canal, and caused by one of the bacteria, Micrococcus Bombycis. Also called
flachery or (as French) flacherie, or (as Italian) flaccidezza.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being flaccid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
flaccid .
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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Now he's scaring us with his flaccidity, which is why we're thinking about putting his woody on a "lost" poster and stapling it up to telephone poles all around the neighborhood.
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I can see it now, you snapping your fingers as your "flaccidity" waves in the breeze.
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But Governments are beset by an even greater danger, which the learned might call "flaccidity" and the simple -- "flabbiness."
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Some bullets had passed through his spinal nerves and a physiotherapist, using the word "flaccidity" to describe his legs, let slip that he would never walk again.
Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
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Some bullets had passed through his spinal nerves and a physiotherapist, using the word "flaccidity" to describe his legs, let slip that he would never walk again.
Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
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Its easy pessimism and cult of pleasure, its delightful freedom from any demand for continuous thought from its readers, its appeal to the indolence and moral flaccidity which is implicit in all men, all contributed to its immense vogue; and among people who perhaps did not fully understand it but were merely lulled by its sonorousness, a knowledge of it has passed for the insignia of a love of literature and the possession of literary taste.
English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
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"Without admission of wrong-doing" is a startling but not unexpected example of regulatory incompetence and flaccidity.
Adam Hanft: "Without Admission of Wrong-Doing" -- The Infuriating Wrist-Slap of JPMorgan Chase
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They reprise the view lambasted by Will Herberg, more than a half-century ago, in his searing critique of American religious flaccidity, "Protestant Catholic Jew."
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I tend to make compact snarls that are hard to unpack, or to revise them into flaccidity.
I come to praise potential ambiguity, not to bury it « Motivated Grammar
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Chinese demands for natural aphrodisiacs have also contributed to the endangered species status of the white rhinoceros -- whose diminishing number of ground up horns are still in demand for treating penile flaccidity -- and the near extinction of giant Pacific clams whose abductor muscles resemble female sex organs.
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