Adjective : flaccid biceps. ,flaccid prose. From Dictionary.com.
Outside, her guards lay flaccidly in repose upon the cold stone. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Indomitable]
A narrow panel in the wall slid open and revealed white garments hanging flaccidly to one side. From Wordnik.com. [Destination Brain]
In and out, back and forth: the capsule swooped between the globules, the fronds waving flaccidly. From Wordnik.com. [String Theory, Book 3: Evolution] Reference
It sagged flaccidly, chest and stomach sinking toward the ground as if that part of him were melting in the sun. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
On the journey up - before my anticipation was deflated so flaccidly - I had been reading Lost Horizon, the 1933 novel by James Hilton which coined the term 'Shangri La'. From Wordnik.com. [From Lhasa to Shangri La: the Touristification of Tibet] Reference
Yes, HBO declined to offer a second season to its first three-camera sitcom, a show I called "flaccidly unfunny" in the pages of this very magazine and then got some hate mail. From Wordnik.com. [HBO makes some really good decisions | EW.com] Reference
Thus far she had run on gaily with her tender nonsense, but now she checked herself suddenly as she read no answering smile on his face and felt her hands lie flaccidly ungripped in his. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
As I sit nervously wondering how things will pan out down Ealing way I am still riven with disappointment that “Mock The Week” which started so well has now drooped flaccidly into bashing the Conservatives and the Monarchy in lieu of a” Muvver in Law “. From Wordnik.com. [Life Goes on Under Emperor Brown] Reference
My weeny merguez, resting flaccidly on couscous, franked the inoffensiveness form, while another, fatter nine quid banger, "the Beaujolaise" – an amalgam of pork, mushroom, onion and bacon – seemed less a sausage than a loose coalition struggling to coexist amicably under the one skin. From Wordnik.com. [Restaurant: Bar Boulud, London SW1] Reference
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 declare 2008 the year of thinking flaccidly. From Wordnik.com. [House of Eratosthenes] Reference
Well, if not death, in the terminal stages and destined to limp on flaccidly until the end of the year. From Wordnik.com. [Alphaville Herald] Reference
Mrs. Atwater paused in her darning, and let the stocking collapse flaccidly into the work-basket in her lap. From Wordnik.com. [Gentle Julia] Reference
It was evidently Kit who was the better man, for the sack subsided repeatedly and flaccidly on the hard-beaten earthen floor. From Wordnik.com. [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference
He seemed as flaccidly willing to speak on this as on any other topic; to find it no more interesting than the subject of his former speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Bent Twig] Reference
This was a real desert camel, with little hair, a sad expression and a hump which through long shortage of fodder hung flaccidly to one side. From Wordnik.com. [Tartarin De Tarascon] Reference
His eyes have lost their fire; his muscles are flaccidly relaxed; his sloping shoulders stoop; his long, limp hands hang nervelessly at his sides. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
Three loose cannons, or did the party realize that its "GOP to unemployed: Drop dead" trial balloon had gone frrrrrrp and slumped flaccidly to the ground?. From Wordnik.com. [Boulder Daily Camera Most Viewed] Reference
The big take-away here is that Red Bull New York is doing it with essentially the same personnel who stumbled and bumbled around so flaccidly a year ago, flirting with league marks for worst team ever. From Wordnik.com. [SI.com] Reference
Smith, who's never been known for his ability to shoot action, will no doubt take the blame, but even James Cameron would have had a hard time making anything fun out of these flaccidly constructed scenes. From Wordnik.com. [Cinema Blend Feeds] Reference
Mrs. Maze was coming rapidly down the platform toward them, leaving the express agent to crawl flaccidly into his den at the end of the passenger-station, with the air of having had all his joints started. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Patient Lovers] Reference
My weeny merguez, resting flaccidly on couscous, franked the inoffensiveness form, while another, fatter nine quid banger, "the Beaujolaise" - an amalgam of pork, mushroom, onion and bacon - seemed less a sausage than a loose coalition struggling to coexist amicably under the one skin. From Wordnik.com. [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference
These Irish plays appeal now to all mankind as they would never appeal if they had attempted to be flaccidly "cosmopolitan"; they are vital and human, and therefore appeal to all humanity, just because those who wrote them wrote from the heart about their own people and their own feelings, their own good and bad traits, their own vital national interests and traditions and history. From Wordnik.com. [Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography] Reference
"flaccidly unfunny" in the pages of this very magazine and then got some hate mail. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
And for comparison’s sake with the Advisor, here’s Roeper’s tongue-flaccidly-in-cheek list of the advantages of single life. From Wordnik.com. [Are We Not Men?] Reference
So Representative King’s jowls have been all over television lately, shaking as flaccidly as Rush Limbaugh when his luggage gets held up at the airport. From Wordnik.com. [06/30/2006] Reference
On this day, we started with a disappointing calamari appetizer: flaccidly fried, unseasoned greasy squid bits that the house-made tartar sauce and cilantro aioli couldn’t save. From Wordnik.com. [You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » 2007 » January] Reference
Rivera's murals are flaccidly described as "Dark brown women among jungle trees. From Wordnik.com. Reference
John Heartfield), 2009, in which an absurdly attenuated, disembodied arm sprouting a shriveled head and a withered flower rest flaccidly before a totemic form resembling a computer terminal. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
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