flaccid
adjective
soft and limp; not firm; flabby.
flaccidly
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a word derived from
flaccid.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
There was an intolerable shimmer on the low-lying adobe flats to the east, and the sea of alfalfa to the north drooped flaccidly in the furnace heat.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
