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

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

From BBC • Mar. 17, 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

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

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck