The patient's muscles became flaccid after many days in bed. From LearnThat.org.
flaccid muscles. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
My guess is, the use of the word flaccid was no accident. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
Well phil - shame you couldn't actually demonstrate in what way my logic was "flaccid" - or how things are "not going my way". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
First, I'm sure you are both flaco and flaccid, that is, skinny and limp. From Wordnik.com. [Illusions: Fake Twitters and Strange Looks] Reference
The word "flaccid" was never used when you referred to me. From Wordnik.com. [Jennifer and John Lehr: He Said, She Said: What Happens at Yaddo Doesn't Stay at Yaddo] Reference
And then there’s his direction, which can only be described as flaccid and uninspired. From Wordnik.com. [SHOCKER! Ray Hates COP OUT! | Obsessed With Film] Reference
Lewis' Narnian Chronicles and Richard Adams' Watership Down in the mix, and calls Lloyd Alexander's writing "flaccid". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
The word flaccid comes to mind. From Wordnik.com. [There Is A Season]
Regrettably, the word "flaccid" often comes to mind. From Wordnik.com. [Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.] Reference
The word "flaccid" was used in several reports of the event. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The word "flaccid" has an orthodoxy about it, said orthodoxy being the singularity of a particular act to which the word may pertain. From Wordnik.com. [House of Eratosthenes] Reference
Liked is too flaccid a word. From Wordnik.com. [Killing Your Darlings] Reference
I pick up Midwestern Luthier, Summer 1988, flaccid. From Wordnik.com. [At the Flea Market] Reference
State regulation is sometimes tough but usually flaccid. From Wordnik.com. [Here They Go Again] Reference
He could feel the flaccid skin warm, but only spottily. From Wordnik.com. [Old Egg] Reference
The paralysis remained of the absolutely flaccid variety. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
That the Intermediatist is likely to be a flaccid compromiser. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Supported on each side, with flaccid legs just able to move in turn. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
They sit on the roadside, give blood and water to the flaccid mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Wishing Tree] Reference
Cattle are very fond of this grass as the leaves are flaccid and tender. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
He has become pliant in will, feeble in purpose, and flaccid in character. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
However, the opposition party is presenting an appallingly flaccid opposition. From Wordnik.com. [A LETHAL IDEA STILL LIVES] Reference
Though you both laughed, he went red, then flaccid — coolthe rest of the night. From Wordnik.com. [Assumption] Reference
Other than that his chin was indistinctly flaccid and his teeth distinctively crooked. From Wordnik.com. [Preacher Jefferson] Reference
The abdomen was flaccid and sunken, respiratory movements being confined to the upper half. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Often, a brewery will get the blame for a flaccid brew when a careless bartender is the real culprit. From Wordnik.com. [Beer: Head-to-head competition] Reference
It lay in hers, flaccid and inert, its dreadful passivity stinging her into realization of the truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
The men's movement makes a point of not propagating "sensitivity" of the wispy, flaccid, moonstruck variety. From Wordnik.com. [Drums, Sweat And Tears] Reference
The night-flitting women went first, urged away by the necessities of the flaccid fish which lived upon their shame. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Later, comic actors playing old buffoons were often equally well-endowed, if flaccid, with padded bellies and behinds. From Wordnik.com. [The Venerable Brought to Vivid Life] Reference
If he could only shatter those flaccid masses of jelly, he would destroy the swarming dozens of beasts at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Zehru of Xollar] Reference
The unprecedented number of "for sale" signs, high unemployment and flaccid business environment, tell a tale of decline. From Wordnik.com. [Gary Shapiro: Washington's Gain Is the Nation's Loss] Reference
Moths on emergence should not be killed at once, as they are then too flaccid, and have not sufficiently purged themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Dirty truckers with lined faces and 48-hour whiskers watched me with suspicion in their staring eyes and flaccid expressions. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctuary] Reference
The actress -- viewing the return of her countrymen, with flaccid pocketbooks, from the land of dollars -- had no misgivings. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
Instead, all we get is a flaccid "statement" from the magazine that doesn't address the many issues surrounding the D'Souza fiasco. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Boehlert: Why Won't Forbes Defend Its Obama Story?] Reference
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