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But novelists have been flaccidly imitating the 19th century realists for so long that it’s a shock when one carries it out this successfully.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2022

Even his talent for visceral editing is restrained: the big tilts are flaccidly cut, and the final battle is confusingly anticlimactic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Give him the latest fad, the most flaccidly permissive excuse for current thought, and he will top it nearly every time.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why are his plays such flaccidly somnolent affairs?

From Time Magazine Archive

This was a real desert camel, with little hair, a sad expression and a hump which through long shortage of fodder hung flaccidly to one side.

From Tartarin De Tarascon by Colt, Oliver C.