The old man's muscles were sagging flabbily. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
People moved flabbily about like squid in a tank of tepid smelly water. From Wordnik.com. [FallNet - a pack of gnomes, trolls & gargoyles] Reference
He continued to wheeze for a few moments more, then collapsed flabbily into his seat. From Wordnik.com. [Psychosphere]
And while he walked flabbily along Kinnison studied intently the brain of the newcomer. From Wordnik.com. [Gray Lensman]
I shoved my fat baroness quickly away, and she went down sprawling flabbily on her stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Flash]
FRAUENZIMMER: and down the shelving shore flabbily, their splayed feet sinking in the silted sand. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
I held out my hand, unwontedly white, and he took it flabbily, instead of briskly and warmly as he usually did. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Slopes] Reference
The bloated loansman looked pale and harried; he had lost weight, and his skin hung flabbily over his bones now. From Wordnik.com. [Starman's Quest] Reference
Last but not least -- knowing the story beforehand just punctured the third act, and let all the tension hiss out flabbily. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
If you want to see flabbily gaseous political campaigning resting on a random meaningless event look at Blair on the Bulger case. From Wordnik.com. [Got Carried Away] Reference
They worked in concert, trying to roll the bull over, but could get it to do little more than wiggle flabbily as they strained against the poles. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
The flabbily worded Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), rushed through Congress on September 18, 2001, gave the President his carte blanche. From Wordnik.com. [The Prisoners Speak] Reference
Moreover the photo was several years old, and today Loubet had probably gone to pieces, become flabbily fleshy, with a shifty look instead of one of self-confidence. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Little Crosses]
He giggled flabbily, and sat down in a steamer chair. From Wordnik.com. [South Sea Tales] Reference
He patted its head and it did not move; he lifted its paw and it fell down flabbily. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Kings] Reference
Wet buttonholes refused to open, shoestrings knotted hopelessly, and everything stuck flabbily together. From Wordnik.com. [Cricket at the Seashore] Reference
At last, after what seemed a long timeit might have been five seconds, I dare sayhe sagged flabbily to his knees. From Wordnik.com. [Shooting an Elephant] Reference
Richard grinned in friendship upon Mr. Fopling, who shook hands flabbily and seemed uncertain of his mental direction. From Wordnik.com. [The President A novel] Reference
At last, after what seemed a long time — it might have been five seconds, I dare say — he sagged flabbily to his knees. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays] Reference
Suits which looked worn and glossless while they were still new, flabbily draped on dummies like corpses with painted cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
I have prodded it out from its socket with my knife and set it flabbily on a penny -- so it must work to its very last drop of life. From Wordnik.com. [Once Aboard the Lugger] Reference
The unseeing eyes stared upward, water ceased to gush from the open mouth, and the lolling tongue settled flabbily between the mud-smeared lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest] Reference
But the holding capacity of tender minds is small, and a few subjects thoroughly taught are infinitely better than a large number of subjects flabbily taught. From Wordnik.com. [From a College Window] Reference
If you put your hand under these to raise it, and find it springs back hard and firm, it is a sign the lobster is fresh; if they move flabbily, it is not a good omen. From Wordnik.com. [The American Frugal Housewife] Reference
Many intellectuals of the Left were flabbily pacifist up to 1935, shrieked for war against Germany in the years 1935-9, and then promptly cooled off when the war started. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays] Reference
The pouches under Stone's eyes were heavier and darker, his cheeks drooped flabbily and he seemed to have fallen away inside his clothes, but upon his face there sat the same stern impassiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man] Reference
For those who don’t have video, his reaction was to say nothing, flabbily. From Wordnik.com. [Rep. Carnahan and the Gladney Incident: the secret press conference. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference
How flabbily, how lifelessly, even how senselessly have my feelings found expression; and yet they were so elevated. ". From Wordnik.com. [Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood] Reference
His compatriots followed him, though flabbily; and he continued to make himself heard above the shouts of “Order!” and the bimming of the chairman’s bell. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
Sir Gerald shook hands flabbily. From Wordnik.com. [Babbitt] Reference
Sir Gerald shook hands flabbily. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19] Reference
And flabbily collapse the members all. From Wordnik.com. [On the Nature of Things] Reference
His cheeks and stomach hang flabbily. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
All flabbily bent on avoiding the Pitch?. From Wordnik.com. [More Cricket Songs] Reference
Each had taken on weight, the one, solidly, comfortably; the other, flabbily, unhealthily. From Wordnik.com. [One Basket] Reference
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