flaccidity
Example Sentences
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Evaluating the parlous flaccidity of our schools, James Traub thinks we’re in big trouble—but he also finds reason for hope.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
The lack of muscle tone, known as hypotonicity or flaccidity, may indicate that the LMN is not conducting action potentials that will keep a basal level of acetylcholine in the neuromuscular junction.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
But Governments are beset by an even greater danger, which the learned might call "flaccidity" and the simple—"flabbiness."
From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine
What gives him that flaccidity, that pallor of the cheeks where the skin was once as tight as a drum and bursting with the good sound health of a man without a care?
From Ursula by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
All his lines were lines of beauty, but beauty which had power and much masculine strength; nowhere did it degenerate into flaccidity, nowhere lose strength in grace.
From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie
