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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for flabby
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flabby
Adjective
  • Traditional shades of red and green remain present, but they’re joined by bubble gum pink and soft blue for a more eclectic palette.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Tejasvi designed it with large-font type to make text easier to see and read, and a soft, blue theme intended to be soothing to people who may come to the site fresh from a scam and be fearful or frazzled.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • An amaryllis bulb naturally grows long floppy leaves, staking them upright would look ridiculous.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Rice slow simmers and cooks up tender, buttery, and creamy, but not mushy.
    Marianne Williams, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Steer clear of the refrigerator, which can lead to a mushy or mealy texture and loss of flavor.
    Heather Riske, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The owners of Konjo, Fetien Gibre-Michael and Yoseph Assefa, have introduced an untold number of Denverites to injera, a spongy bread that accompanies most meals.
    Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Bare, blackened trees with pointed, spindly limbs and black soil that felt strange underfoot, both spongy and brittle.
    River Selby August 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 11 Sep. 2025.

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