Adjective : flaccid biceps. ,flaccid prose. From Dictionary.com.
I can see it now, you snapping your fingers as your "flaccidity" waves in the breeze. From Wordnik.com. [Illusions: Fake Twitters and Strange Looks] Reference
But Governments are beset by an even greater danger, which the learned might call "flaccidity" and the simple -- "flabbiness.". From Wordnik.com. [Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences] Reference
That should have told her the tale: that flaccidity. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor to Memory]
Defending the free word from the forces of flaccidity. From Wordnik.com. [She Shoots She Scores] Reference
I mean, this guy approaches Mr. Bill in his flaccidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of Hannity’s Success - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference
From the very first line this emotional flaccidity is evident. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
A digital examination per rectum revealed considerable flaccidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
The flaccidity came into his arms and legs as his muscles were robbed of their oxygen. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
It goes a long way toward understanding the flaccidity of this historic administration. From Wordnik.com. [The Far Side of Prudence] Reference
A silent moment passed as this culprit wondered at his prey's unsatisfactory flaccidity. From Wordnik.com. [Pros and Cons of Wildflower Collection] Reference
I tend to make compact snarls that are hard to unpack, or to revise them into flaccidity. From Wordnik.com. [I come to praise potential ambiguity, not to bury it « Motivated Grammar] Reference
She had grown plumper with the years, but the flaccidity about her was not a matter of fat entirely. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories Vol 1]
He was repelled by its limp flaccidity, by this touch which was without communication, without desire. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind to Murder]
Fight the Right on their hypocritical, chickenshit, mama's boy flaccidity in the face of real challenge. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
The external signs of the disease are larval sluggishness, flaccidity and dark brown spots on the cuticle. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
It is particularly useful for yin conditions where there is flaccidity, weakness, and general loss of tone. From Wordnik.com. [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference
In the weak there is languor, faintness, flaccidity of the breasts, general depression, and pains in the back and loins. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Damage to F1 results in flaccidity and a loss of strength and destroys the capacity of moving the fingers independently. From Wordnik.com. ['Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions And Emotions'] Reference
Sliding into the tone of the playground tough, Grogan completed his portrait of Bowen's flaccidity: That curfew's for you!. From Wordnik.com. [Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583] Reference
It did not react as might an alarm clock shaken into running once again instead it toppled disappointingly forward with an odd flaccidity. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Derelict]
There is no flaccidity, even if "little Robin" has gone to sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
It sank, excused for the flaccidity by Nataly's want of common adventurous daring. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
"Gepco's G-Flex jacket compound ... offers additional flaccidity and flex-life ...". From Wordnik.com. [Gearwire -] Reference
"Diastolic flaccidity" also explains the physical heartache of grief, loss, betrayal. From Wordnik.com. [Readthehook.com - Current Articles] Reference
As I'd suspected, its target demographic is the dude plagued with emasculating flaccidity. From Wordnik.com. [I Blame The Patriarchy] Reference
Since January, Obama's once-rigid stance on GLBT rights has adopted a taffy-like flaccidity. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
Highly placed and highly paid flaccidity then reigned supreme, and produced its inevitable result. From Wordnik.com. [Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences] Reference
Nor need we fear that the result of this would be any flaccidity of conviction, or lethargy in act. From Wordnik.com. [On Compromise] Reference
The other viscera did not offer anything remarkable, except the paleness and flaccidity of their tissue. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
Besides, inquiries concerning the health of cow-punchers were not only superfluous, but bordered on flaccidity. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the West [Annotated]] Reference
His very malevolence proceeded from a flaccidity which meanly envied the activities and enthusiasms of other men. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge] Reference
"Jennie Gerhardt" there is no such flaccidity of structure, no such vacillation in aim, no such proliferation of episode. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
The creaky bed, the unvarnished walls, and the rusty alarm clock, that ticked insistently, all added to the sense of flaccidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
But last December we were assured that flaccidity had made way for firmness, and that the pudding had been replaced by the flint. From Wordnik.com. [Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences] Reference
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