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Such campaigns against supposed waste or flabbiness in Whitehall are traditional for new governments, and generally meet with mixed success.

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2020

But perhaps a source of its flabbiness is the condition under which it was written.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2019

This is hardly the first time a major Hollywood franchise has succumbed to narrative flabbiness, or invested in grand, elaborate world building with the kind of devotion that far outstrips the viewer’s interest.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2017

He took up soccer and skateboarding, became infatuated with weight lifting, and shed flabbiness that had become a source of ridicule.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 18, 2016

The prisoners had that same flabbiness and coarseness.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin