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flabby

[flab-ee] / ˈflæb i /


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Some flabby offshoot that had nothing to do with the leg it was attached to.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Instead of a skeleton and scales, the blobfish has a soft body and flabby skin.

From BBC Mar. 19, 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

The central mystery is flabby and uncompelling and it feels obligatory at best, a real-estate scandal offering a loose background in front of which these actors play.

From Los Angeles Times May 9, 2024

Great flabby folds of fat bulged out from every part of his body, and his face was like a monstrous ball of dough with two small greedy curranty eyes peering out upon the world.

From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" 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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