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Recent Examples of flaccid The line felt dumb and flaccid, derivative in an irritating rather than with-it sense, and lacking the transgression found in good gallows humor. Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025 Dicks are rife even in her early images, pressed into service as beleaguered punctums or as flaccid riffs on all the breasts and mounds of Venus that swell throughout art history. Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025 In the last scene of the film, the Father stands on a rock in the middle of a waterfall, naked, flaccid, alone, and screaming, shattered with desire. P.e. Moskowitz, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025 The line felt dumb and flaccid, derivative in an irritating rather than with-it sense, and lacking the transgression found in good gallows humor. Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flaccid
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Adjective
  • When Nichols goes limp, he is handcuffed and leaned against an unmarked squad car.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 8 May 2025
  • The video shows Black’s body apparently going limp as officers raise his torso back up and strap his arms to the chair.
    Joe Kottke, NBC news, 6 May 2025
Adjective
  • Zendaya arrived in the definition of tailored with an all-white suit and matching white floppy hat.
    Jenifer Calle, Glamour, 6 May 2025
  • Theo Wargo / FilmMagic 3d ago / 3:34 PM PDT Share Zendaya spotted on red carpet Viola Flowers Zendaya has arrived in an all-white suit with floppy white hat and a small, silver snake detail on the upper back of the suit jacket.
    Angela Yang, NBC news, 6 May 2025

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“Flaccid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flaccid. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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