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flabby

[flab-ee] / ˈflæb i /


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Meanwhile the narrator’s financially devious husband appears as a vulture with “the brooding eye, the blood-tipped beak, the flabby folds of flesh” of a bird of prey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

In a speech last week Sir Keir Starmer promised to make the "flabby" state more efficient and cut bureaucracy.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025

There’s no method here that will render it crispy and browned, and no one wants to cut through flabby chicken skin.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2025

At a hefty 2 hours and 24 minutes, the film is flabby, not jacked, and lacking in an unpredictable live-wire element.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

His plump flabby face had turned grey with fearful apprehension.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

That’s heavier than a whole ass Honda Civic, bulkier than a Subaru BRZ, flabbier than a Ford Fiesta.

From The Verge ● Feb. 16, 2022

She looked flabbier around the middle, her skin didn't glisten as much, and the sparkle in her eyes dimmed.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2021

“New Girl” star Jake Johnson voices a flabbier and depressed Peter Parker who wears sweat pants and is going through a divorce to Mary Jane.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 10, 2018

Do you think video games are ready for a flabbier female lead, or no?

From Forbes ● Jul. 23, 2015

He was wound up as tight as a spring, and I thought that any second he might pounce on Dusty Muleman, who was smaller and flabbier.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

The sessions with Ezra, however, are the flabbiest part of this lengthy film.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2021

Moreover, during Broadway's flabbiest theater season in years and a week when one play closed after opening night and another should have.

From Time Magazine Archive

The winter wilderness, once the province of a few hardy sportsmen, now opens up to even the flabbiest American with the newest things in snow-gadgetry.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the sight of Will, he endeavoured to smile, and his handshake, though the flabbiest possible, was meant for a cordial response to the young man's heartiness.

From Will Warburton by George Gissing




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