as in soft
giving easily to the touch
his daughter playfully poked at his flabby belly
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Recent Examples of flabby
Three aluminum sculptures from roughly a decade later resemble flabby beings who writhe around above viewers’ heads.
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
In the final days of the competition, the flabby fish got a little extra push when two New Zealand radio hosts began encouraging listeners to join Team Blobfish.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
In the first season, when jokes went flabby or the writers didn’t know how to finish a skit, a fake cow was dropped from the rafters.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
At a hefty 2 hours and 24 minutes, the film is flabby, not jacked, and lacking in an unpredictable live-wire element.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
In the final days of the competition, the flabby fish got a little extra push when two New Zealand radio hosts began encouraging listeners to join Team Blobfish.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
In the first season, when jokes went flabby or the writers didn’t know how to finish a skit, a fake cow was dropped from the rafters.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
At a hefty 2 hours and 24 minutes, the film is flabby, not jacked, and lacking in an unpredictable live-wire element.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flabby
Adjective
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The result is soft, luminous skin that’s also protected from a high UV index.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
28 Apr. 2025
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The frame is made from a soft velvet fabric that’s extremely comfortable to recline on.—
Christopher Murray
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FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In spite of all the blood on his hands, there was an innate magnetism to the character, with his floppy hair and shy smiles.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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This is made worse by his needy eyes and floppy curly hair.—
Jeffrey Seller,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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When the ice melts, the land turns incredibly mushy.—
Jim Huylebroek,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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The delicate protein will begin to break down and may turn mushy if the fish soaks too long, especially in a marinade that's acidic, like this one is.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The film splinters the mind as pitilessly as previous Cronenberg movies went to work on the fragile, spongy body. 16.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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Landing in the bottom are Henry (for the sin of a spongy scallion pancake), Paula (for texture issues), and Bailey (for the aforementioned Pile of Stuff).—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority vowed transparency and, after a squishy answer for the delay of 2023 results, released all racing and training deaths for 2024.—
John Cherwa,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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Love them or loathe them, Peeps are the very adorable cockroaches of the candy world—brightly colored, impossibly squishy, and seemingly indestructible.—
Lanee Lee,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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“Flabby.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flabby. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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