Definition of "flaccid"
flaccid
adjective
comparative more flaccid, superlative most flaccid
Quotations
The combatants with rage most horribleStrove, and their eyes started with cracking stare,And impotent their tongues they lolled into the air,Flaccid and foamy, like a mad dog’s hanging; […]
1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, page 267
Quotations
The flaccid economy of the 1970s rendered Americans even more hostile toward liberal welfare policies.
2006, Jeff Bloodworth, “"THE PROGRAM FOR BETTER JOBS AND INCOME": WELFARE REFORM, LIBERALISM, AND THE FAILED PRESIDENCY OF JIMMY CARTER.”, in International Social Science Review, volume 81, number 3/4, pages 135–150