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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
  • Disregard the packet’s rigid instructions — boiling them for exactly two minutes risks either a limp, lifeless tangle or an unpleasantly chewy bite.
    The Learning Network, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • If the stalks are limp, rubbery, blemished, or dry and wood-like, and the tips mushy and discolored, then take a pass.
    Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • MacDonald allegedly told Army investigators at the time that his family was killed by a group of hippies, which included a woman in a floppy hat.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2025
  • Later that afternoon, Anderson was seen donning the messy curls again, this time while wearing a floppy white sun hat, a crisp button-down, a matching skirt with floral cutouts, and pointed-toe pumps.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 21 May 2025

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“Flaccid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flaccid. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.

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