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flabby

/flab-ee/US // ˈflæb i //UK // (ˈflæbɪ) //

软弱无力,软绵绵的,软弱,软弱的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    flab·bi·er, flab·bi·est.

    • : hanging loosely or limply, as flesh or muscles; flaccid.
    • : having such flesh.
    • : lacking strength or determination.

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Examples

  • Most of the others had crusts that were too flabby, too tough or too overcooked to be worth eating.

  • Winemaker Xavier Arnaudin harvests early to avoid the flabby, high-alcohol-style wine the grape can yield when too ripe, then he adds a little texture by fermenting the grapes on their skins.

  • Music generally sounds flabbier through the Echo compared to the Nest Audio.

  • After a night with football legend Joe Namath, she told her driver that Namath was “flabby.”

  • He was twenty-five and in peak physical condition when he went in, but a flabby thirty when he came out.

  • Not every kid who returns home suffers from bombastic dreams matched only by their lack of direction and flabby self-discipline.

  • You see for yourself that that paragraph just consists of flabby and general rhetoric that kinda sorta sounds believable.

  • In a Rolling Stone article about Secretary of State Clinton, he referred to her “flabby arms.”

  • It is as much as I can do to prevent myself flinging my arms round the old shop-woman's neck and kissing her flabby cheeks.

  • When I hear (as I often do) some flabby boozer whining and ascribing his trouble to the drinkshop, I despise him.

  • His eyes had retreated deeper into the sockets, and his thick lips, once so firm and domineering, were loose and flabby.

  • The flabby hand laid the weapon in Crozier's lean and strenuous fingers.

  • The object had something of the form of a jester's bauble with points, which hung flabby and undulating.