flab
Example Sentences
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The series has been described as a political thriller, but it’s got so much flab and filler that it seems ideologically opposed to the very idea of suspense.
From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022
And this is why his movies have one of the lowest B.M.I.s in the action business: He cuts the flab.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2021
"She had a lot of winter flab and was stuck fast at her hip - there was no going forward or back," said Michael Sehr, a professional animal rescuer from Rhein Necker, according to BBC.
From Fox News • Feb. 26, 2019
He is a six-foot-five-inch former military policeman, whose weight fluctuates between two hundred and twenty and two hundred and fifty pounds, none of it flab.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 6, 2016
“Might get some of that flab off your butt,” Katz muttered privately, and stepped into the woods.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.