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
This delight not in action or in emotion arising from action but in passivity of suffering is only one aspect of a certain mental flaccidity in grain.
From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by Mair, G. H. (George Herbert)
People noticed that he repeated himself; they discovered poverty of ideas, flaccidity, and faults of construction in his later pieces.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo
His very malevolence proceeded from a flaccidity which meanly envied the activities and enthusiasms of other men.
From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by Mair, G. H. (George Herbert)
