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Definition

lacking in firmness or strength

flaccid = lacking firmness or strength

Over time, his hard body lost its tone, then grew flaccid, and finally grew flabby.
Since Prince Andrew had last seen him Kutuzov had grown still more corpulent, flaccid, and fat.
Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
Her face was heavy, her complexion flaccid and watery.
John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

flaccid = lacking in firmness or strength

It was as though his eyes were holding their breath, while his mother looked at him, her face flaccid and...
William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fury

flaccid = lacking firmness or strength

At forty-four, Linda seemed, by contrast, a monster of flaccid and distorted senility.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

flaccid = lacking in firmness or strength

flaccid = lacking in strength or firmness

Even when they snatched him up by the collar, his weak body easily lending itself to be manhandled, he looked without hope or resentment, his eyes like two still pools of black ink in his flaccid face.
Richard Wright -- Native Son

flaccid = lacking in strength or firmness

You are spineless, flaccid things.
London, Jack -- The Iron Heel
The cheeks would become hollow or flaccid.
Wilde, Oscar -- The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Pumblechook, leaning back in his chair, quite flaccid with admiration, "that's the way you know 'em, sir."
Dickens, Charles -- Great Expectations
The bullet-head crumpled forward upon its flaccid neck against the great hairy chest—the roaring and the shrieking ceased.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- The Beasts of Tarzan
Terror was upon her white face as she saw it; her cheek was flaccid, and her mouth had almost the aspect of a round little hole.
Hardy, Thomas -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman
The nerve of the savage had gone, and his muscle had become a flaccid thing.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- A Millionaire of Yesterday
flaccid cheeks
Its outer covering was becoming flaccid, and floated loosely in the air, and the folds of the silk rustled and grated on each other.
Verne, Jules -- Five Weeks in a Balloon
flaccid muscles
Paul staggered as the old man sagged in his arms, felt the death there, the utter flaccidity.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
Without her mockery, affection for others sank into flaccid disrepair.
Toni Morrison -- Sula
His breathing was hoarse, his face livid, his limbs flaccid, his belly prominent.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

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