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flaccid

/flas-id, flak-sid/US // ˈflæs ɪd, ˈflæk sɪd //UK // (ˈflæksɪd, ˈflæs-) //

软弱无力,松弛的,松弛,软弱无力的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : soft and limp; not firm; flabby: flaccid biceps.
    • : lacking force; weak: flaccid prose.

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Examples

  • It was not long before several food substitutes appeared to overflow the flaccid trays and the same notes with little hearts and phrases were once again there.

  • She’d pin me to the bed and lick my mouth until, exhausted from defending themselves, my mouth muscles became flaccid and I spoke comically, thorta like thif, and the whole family laughed.

  • In our less sexist age, Barack Obama has nevertheless found his Syria policy called “flaccid” and “impotent.”

  • Waiting for a taxi, he breathed in the spicy, flaccid atmosphere of the city and felt the strangeness of things around him.

  • There was a vicious aching in his nerves, his muscles were flaccid and unstrung; a numbness was in his brain as well.

  • The great hope after all lies in the knotless, rather flaccid character of the people.

  • His tail is not prehensile but flaccid, and half as long again as his head and body.

  • The two men went to the conservatory and gazed in upon a ruin of limp leaves and flaccid petals, killed by the powerful gases.

  • Fie, fie upon the flaccid, castrated century, that has no other use than to chew over again the deeds of the past.