Recent Examples on the WebThe authentic Christmas dinner had consisted of dry turkey, lumpy mashed potatoes, and flabby spears of asparagus.—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2023 Yet despite all the combat and chase scenes, the pace sometimes drags; episodes that feel flabby at 45 minutes might’ve been more captivating at a half hour.—TIME, 1 Feb. 2024 These flabby strips of breast are juicy and taste like the chicken on a mid-tier restaurant’s Caesar salad.—Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 30 Aug. 2023 But how could little Alexandra be entrusted to this flabby, slovenly, psychologically troubled woman?—Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023 The flabby, violent, ineffective police state that advances nightly through plumes of tear gas is the dreary and inevitable outcome of the unspoken and unexamined political consensus.—David Roth, The New Republic, 11 June 2020 But that flabby and inert expression is not just a stylistic problem.—David Roth, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2020 In that sense, this Netflix presentation falls victim to what's increasingly an issue with entries within the true-crime genre: Finding a gripping story, then telling it in a disjointed, flabby way.—Brian Lowry, CNN, 26 Feb. 2020 For the even slightly flabby, a leather shirt accentuates imperfections.—Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2020
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