flabby

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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

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

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2025

About a year and a half ago, it occurred to me that if I didn’t start working out again, I’d be sliding into a sloppy, flabby late middle age.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2024

At every life stage, it has stretched a system that was often too small to accommodate it, leaving it somewhat flabby and misshapen in its wake.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2024

I could see smut in one doctor's nose; a nurse had two flabby chins.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison