flailing
Speech parts
1. flailing - Noun
2. flailing - Verb
Meaning
flailing
present participle of flail
flailing (plural flailings)
A flailing action or motion.
The drowning man's flailings soon attracted the lifeguard's attention.
Synonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.