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flabbily

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flab·by  (flb)
adj. flab·bi·er, flab·bi·est
1. Lacking firmness; flaccid: getting flabby around the waist. See Synonyms at limp.
2. Lacking force or vitality; ineffectual: flabby self-pity.
[Alteration of flappy, tending to flap, from flap.]
flabbi·ly adv.
flabbi·ness n.
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Adv.1.flabbily - in a flabby manner; "the old man's muscles were sagging flabbily"
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flabbily
adv → schlaff; written → schwammig


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One, pretending to imitate him, goes outside and comes in again in a ludicrously nervous manner, explaining to him afterward that that is the way he--meaning the shy fellow--walks into a room; or, turning to him with "This is the way you shake hands," proceeds to go through a comic pantomime with the rest of the room, taking hold of every one's hand as if it were a hot plate and flabbily dropping it again.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
exclaimed Phoebus, and he gave the drunken scholar a rough push; the latter slipped against the wall, and slid flabbily to the pavement of Philip Augustus.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
He giggled flabbily, and sat down in a steamer chair.
South Sea Tales by London, Jack View in context
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