as in soft
giving easily to the touch
his daughter playfully poked at his flabby belly
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Recent Examples of flabby
At a hefty 2 hours and 24 minutes, the film is flabby, not jacked, and lacking in an unpredictable live-wire element.
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Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
His pale face and flabby jowls belie too much time spent under fluorescent office lighting, too little in the gym.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Ripe red fruits but a good snap of acid keeps in from being too plush and flabby.
—Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
Three aluminum sculptures from roughly a decade later resemble flabby beings who writhe around above viewers’ heads.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
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Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
His pale face and flabby jowls belie too much time spent under fluorescent office lighting, too little in the gym.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Ripe red fruits but a good snap of acid keeps in from being too plush and flabby.
—Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
Three aluminum sculptures from roughly a decade later resemble flabby beings who writhe around above viewers’ heads.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flabby
Adjective
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Athletique There is something edgy yet soft about a funnel-neck in a technical fabric—lean in and pair a wind- and water-resistant shell with trousers and sneakers for a touch of sport, or style it with a pencil skirt and kitten heels for a more feminine feel.—
Andrea Zendejas,
Vogue,
16 Sep. 2025
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Swift wore Elson 4, the brand’s best-selling blue-red, but the bullet-proof formula comes in 12 beautiful hues ranging from a soft beige peach (Nude Cabaret) to a deep bronzed rose (Flesh 3).—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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The 9-inch monochrome CRT was retained, but the floppy drive no longer had a door, and the keyboard was extended with several special keys.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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So pack that sunscreen, toss a floppy hat into your weekend bag, and get ready to sip fruity drinks with tiny umbrellas.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Sep. 2025
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Discoveries in brain science have shown us that our emotions, our angers and sympathies, even our personalities are controlled by chemicals within the three pounds of mushy mass in our skulls.—
Alan Lightman
September 12,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025
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Rice slow simmers and cooks up tender, buttery, and creamy, but not mushy.—
Marianne Williams,
Southern Living,
31 Aug. 2025
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These lesions had a spongy texture, which indicates the presence of blood vessels in the affected area.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Sep. 2025
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Some desiccants are solid, others are liquid but the newest — hydrogels or aerogels — are spongy.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
6 Sep. 2025
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Germain McMicking—Neon Advertisement Together is a squishy-gross body-horror comedy about the ways longtime couples sometimes meld sensibilities so completely that one partner or the other may feel subsumed by the whole.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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Timing that shortest of all short windows between when an avocado is hard as rock and horribly black and squishy has become one of the millennium’s many small trials in life (for avocado fans at least).—
Mark Faithfull,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Flabby.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flabby. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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