We may thrill with dread at the aggressive hyphenate, but this tame flabbiness is accepted as Americanization. From Wordnik.com. [Trans-national America] Reference
Both worshipped weakness, flabbiness, good intentions. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s no Reagan on nuclear issues] Reference
They have absolutely no savor of softness or moral flabbiness. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
I feel they overdo her flabbiness and stupidity in some scenes. From Wordnik.com. [sierrazen Diary Entry] Reference
This goes beyond flabbiness, all the way to intellectual catatonia. From Wordnik.com. [Opposition: time to recalibrate] Reference
Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness. From Wordnik.com. [Dear wanks: What exactly is it with you and Israel, anyway?] Reference
"Intellectual dishonesty"? that's my favourite, there's your flabbiness. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Socialists, then the apparent flabbiness of Socialist ideals, and veers away. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
Even if you haven't gained weight, flabbiness could come from lack of exercise. From Wordnik.com. [Diet] Reference
He was growing stout and soft, and there was unwonted flabbiness in his muscles. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter X] Reference
There's a flabbiness in our thinking about schools that poses as high-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Wastage In Education] Reference
Some of them softer to the point of flabbiness; some harder both of body and soul. From Wordnik.com. [Adaptation] Reference
Pointing out where the flabbiness exists will make for a much more interesting read. From Wordnik.com. [You Know You Can Always Change Your Mind | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
The leopard leads such an active life that he is generally slim, without any flabbiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two] Reference
This sort of euphemistic moral flabbiness leads to a dark and dreary dead end for our species. From Wordnik.com. [On Moral Cowardice « Whatever] Reference
That bespeaks a moral flabbiness, if not the abandonment of the very notion of morality itself. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
Don't get me started on one of my favourite rants: the flabbiness of journalism in this country. From Wordnik.com. [617 - sex, geography and demographics] Reference
November 19th, 2008 strychnine is a grand tonic, kemp, to take to take the flabbiness out of a man!. From Wordnik.com. [strychnine is a grand tonic, kemp, to take to take the flabbiness out of a man!] Reference
Bill Wrenn soused him under once more, so thoroughly that his own cuffs were reduced to a state of flabbiness. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference
Owing to the flabbiness of its body it is difficult to kill a seal by a blow, unless you strike it on the temple. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
His hamsterlike cheeks had lost their normal flabbiness, having suddenly taken on hard lines of anger and tension. From Wordnik.com. [Vagabond of Space]
His once proud physique, with its fiat stomach and powerful shoulders and arms, had slumped into middle-aged flabbiness. From Wordnik.com. [Cyberbooks]
But for all his geniality, there is no indulgence for flabbiness -- there is little sympathy, indeed, for any of the weaker ways. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
The fact that skin does not acquire flabbiness even after pregnancy, dropsy or after the disappearance of swelling proves this point. From Wordnik.com. [Role of Dieting in Fat Loss Program] Reference
The coarseness, the flabbiness, the purplish hues were no longer there. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose in the Ring] Reference
I've been his friend for years; his flabbiness sticks out all over him. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
Until recently he had seemed to project a flabbiness that unsettled voters. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
And later, when he criticized Reagan's "fiscal flabbiness," Haig asserted that the. From Wordnik.com. [Nevada Appeal - Top Stories] Reference
And later, when he criticised Reagan's "fiscal flabbiness", Haig asserted that the. From Wordnik.com. [The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines] Reference
And later, when he criticized Reagan's "fiscal flabbiness," Gen. Haig asserted that the. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
He was slightly above average height, rather heavily built, and inclined to flabbiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference
A careless, spasmodic hurrying and retarding leads only to flabbiness and inconsequence. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials in Conducting] Reference
"The flabbiness of the people I met yesterday gives me all the more grounds for action.". From Wordnik.com. [Der Judenstaat. English] Reference
And I am only just emerging from a good many weeks of that sort of flabbiness and poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference
This purse was of a thinness, a flabbiness, a hollowness, which did not escape the eye of Cropole. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicomte De Bragelonne] Reference
For it is not your action that revolts me; it is your apathy, your flabbiness, your cowardice!. From Wordnik.com. [The Choice of Life] Reference
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