flabby

adjective A nonmedical term referring to a body region with a paucity in muscle tone or tissue resilience and an excess of adipose tissue. Flabby is typically used as a euphemism for overweight and/or having a lack of exercise.

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(3.) The device was rather flabbily emulated by Kathryn Guslafson at this year's Venice Biennale.

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(7.) Leo Gurko, who calls all five of the stories in Tales of Unrest "flabbily mediocre," is among the harshest critics of "The Return" in Joseph Conrad: Giant in Exile (London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1965), 241.

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