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Discover LudwigThe word "saggy" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that describes something that is droopy, loose, or hanging down in a limp or floppy manner. You can use the word "saggy" when describing physical features, such as a saggy belly or saggy skin, or in reference to something that is losing its firmness or support, such as a saggy mattress or saggy couch. It can also be used metaphorically to describe something that is lacking energy or motivation, such as a saggy mood or a saggy economy. Example: After losing a significant amount of weight, Sarah's clothes fit loosely and her skin became saggy.
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saggy
adjective
Baggy or loose-fitting.
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Today's issue contains a classic of the genre, as the headline, "Portrait of a slightly saggy supermodel", indicates.
Statistics, too, may be making things there look less saggy.
Good riddance to saggy boobs and varicose-veiny legs so red, white and blue that she could wave them on the Fourth of July.
But see how it is shaped and painted: saggy, lumpish, clumpy, sluggish, slobbish, squidgy.
Three things about Alice Neel's portrait of Andy Warhol strike you straight away: the unpleasantness of its subject's flesh (saggy, fish-like, opalescent); the fact that Warhol is wearing a surgical corset over massive abdominal scars; and, last but perhaps most arresting, that his eyes are closed.
Bagpuss - the most important, the most beautiful, the most magical saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world - could be returning to TV screens.
All one need do now is work out how Postgate somehow knew that children would respond with delight to a programme series about a group of whistling mice who live inside a blue planet, or that a drama concerning "an old saggy cloth cat, baggy and a bit loose at the seams" might become the best-loved UK children's show of all time.
She told The Edit: "Everyone's got arm flab or saggy boobs.
Now Waterstone's booksellers all wear identical branded polo shirts and saggy fleeces, encouraging a customer's perception that they're unable to think for themselves.
Pallid and paunchy in a saggy suit, he falls face-down in the earth at his sexpot mother's wedding, spewing soil from his mouth – a powerfully morbid image.
I made them look old and saggy, like he didn't really care what he wore.
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