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UK
/flˈæbi/
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[ US /ˈfɫæbi/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫæbi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance
flaccid cheeks
flabby around the middle
he was too soft for the army
How To Use flabby In A Sentence
- The only clanger was the crackling, one half of which was flabby and inedible. Lancaster's 10 best budget restaurants, pubs and cafes
- Still, the crêpe was even oilier - thick, flabby and barely hot, with the flavour of an onion-soaked flannel. Times, Sunday Times
- Doctors say they can also take fat from flabby thighs and stomachs. The Sun
- The coffin was palled with a square of rusty black velvet, whence all the pile had long been worn, and which the soaking rain now helped age to embrown and make flabby; a standard cross was borne by an ecclesiastical official, who had on a quadrangular cap surmounted by a centre tuft; two priests followed, sheltered by umbrellas, their sacerdotal garments dabbled and draggled with mud, and showing thick-shod feet beneath the dingy serge and lawn that flapped above them, as they came along at a smart pace, suggestive of anything but solemnity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
- Just can't get rid of your flabby belly, even though you do sit-ups and crunches until you're ready to drop?
- The thought of flabby old farts in az and florida doing anything besides sitting on their asses all day is hysterical: D Think Progress » Only One Republican Federal Lawmaker Has Spoken Out Against Arizona’s Draconian Immigration Law
- He is a great, flabby sham, an actor close to suicide, maybe - and this is an extraordinary display of incipient madness or incorrigible playfulness.
- My stomach is flabby and there are acres of it. The Sun
- But there's a huge advantage in being a private company, as long as we use that wisely and don't become flabby or soft in the way we approach the business.
- Brooker, a stout and flabby man, with pouches under biliously tinged eyes, bowed and broke into a violent perspiration, not wholly due to the shiny black frock-coat suit of broadcloth donned for the occasion. The Dop Doctor