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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

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

When the anthology film “Twilight Zone: The Movie” opened on June 24, 1983, reviews were mixed; The New York Times’s Vincent Canby deemed it “a flabby, mini-minded behemoth,” and that was a fairly representative view.

From New York Times Jun. 25, 2023

Lord Bertulf held up a flabby white hand.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

The new ones are flabbier, slacker, with long periods of strangely self-regarding, even aimless conducting.

From New York Times May 26, 2022

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

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

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

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

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 Gissing, George




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