unelastic
- a word derived from elastic.
Example Sentences
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And as far as the unelastic Raymond can stretch, he does, as he moves from lifelong institutionalization to a week of freedom on the road.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023
That’s the paradox and the predicament of Star Wars: those who live inside the fantasy, whether they’re actors or fans, prefer their shared hallucination to the unelastic, downtrodden world of fact.
From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2015
Bow-BILL DUCKS, &c.—Every one knows how awkward are the Anatidae, waddling along on their unelastic webbed toes, and their short legs, which, being placed considerably backward, make the fore part of the body preponderate.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
The walk is singularly slow, unelastic, loggy, and is characterized at each step by an indescribable, sudden sag or slump at the hip.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage stands on the unelastic plank of famine.
From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David
