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

Nor need we fear that the result of this would be any flaccidity of conviction, or lethargy in act.

From On Compromise by Morley, John

In "Jennie Gerhardt" there is no such flaccidity of structure, no such vacillation in aim, no such proliferation of episode.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

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