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Definition of sagging : 1. A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.
2. of Sag

Synonyms:

pendulous, flagging, weeping, droopy, lax, cernuous

crooked, hooked, arched, serpentine, hanging, bowed, bent, rounded, curved, parabolic

draping, nodding, bobbing, trailing, lolling, draggling, dangling, swinging, drooping, swaying

cambering, hooking, arching, swerving, curving, bowing, bending, sweeping, crooking, rounding

Usage examples:

• At the end of the hall was an equally musty room, sparsely furnished with sagging and broken odds and ends. - "The Eye of Wilbur Mook", H. B. Hickey.
• Five minutes later, toothless, half- dressed and trembling, she thrust a few things into a dressing- case, struggled into a fur coat, and passed with sagging knees downstairs, clinging to the arm of a bully whom she had known as a worm. - "Anthony Lyveden", Dornford Yates.
• Now and then we crossed some wider thoroughfare with its noise of cars and tangle of sagging wires overhead, and signs in foreign tongues under the corner lights. - "The Professor's Mystery", Wells Hastings Brian Hooker.