Flailsome

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Characteristic of a flail, or characterised by flailing

    "A minister of scholarly achievement, as sensitive to social influences as litmus paper to an agent, decided that his town and countryside had had enough of the slot machine racket and all its flailsome appendages."

Example

More examples

"A minister of scholarly achievement, as sensitive to social influences as litmus paper to an agent, decided that his town and countryside had had enough of the slot machine racket and all its flailsome appendages."

Etymology

From flail + -some.

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