Turgid and Flaccid


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Turgid
swollen
In figurative sense
it is used to describe boring, complicated and hard to understand.
  • A turgid game provided some welcome entertainment in the closing minutes
  • Residents on foot maneuvered their way over the undercut road as massive trees with intact root wads floated by in the turgid waters of Spring Creek.
  • After some 23 pages of turgid reasoning, they opined that "committed same-sex couples must be afforded on equal terms the same rights and benefits enjoyed by married opposite-sex couples."
Flash Phrase: Turgid tummy


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Flaccid
soft and weak; not firm and hard

Usage examples:
  • For the most part, in this volume, the author is content with lazy and flaccid arguments, and the book fails as a result.
  • Flaccid effort/defense.
Flash Phrase: Flaccid film.
Usage example: This this flaccid film feels like an exercise in exasperation. No one is likeable, and they have nothing interesting to say.

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