Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being flaccid; laxity; limberness; want of firmness or elasticity.
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Examples
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Perhaps, but that shouldn't excuse it's flaccidness.
VOTD: Grindhouse Movie Trailer For Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax | /Film 2010
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I did as he told and he pulled my boxers down a short bit, exposing my flaccidness, which was exaggerated I felt due to the coldness of the room - in both temperature and bedside manner.
My First Sonogram Michael Ayers 2010
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Why did Alice accept this firkin of flaccidness here on page 114 and not one of my poems?
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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Why did Alice accept this firkin of flaccidness here on page 114 and not one of my poems?
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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Meseems thy yard is made of wax, for very flaccidness;
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The odd pains, the possibility of flaccidness at the wrong time, etc.
dogsolitude Diary Entry dogsolitude 2008
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The leaves, from their flaccidness and narrowness, compared with the squills, may be described as grassy.
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She heard her father muttering incoherently at her side, droning and puling something over and over in a wailing monotone -- she caught it after a while; he was calling upon his God -- in an hour that could not have been were it not for his own moral flaccidness.
'Firebrand' Trevison Charles Alden Seltzer 1908
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Meseems thy yard is made of wax, for very flaccidness; For, when
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879
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Meseems thy yard is made of wax, for very flaccidness; * For when
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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