flimsy

IPA: fɫˈɪmzi

noun

  • Thin typing paper used to make multiple copies.
  • (naval slang) A service certificate
  • (informal, in the plural) Skimpy underwear.
  • (slang) A banknote.

adjective

  • Likely to bend or break under pressure.
  • (figurative) Weak; ill-founded.
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Examples of "flimsy" in Sentences

  • So this pretext, though flimsy, is more than adequate.
  • The leaders pointed to previous alleged assassination plots based on what they called flimsy evidence.
  • Granted, the word "flimsy" overstates the fiction of separateness between the Republican super PACs and the candidates they are supporting.
  • I enjoyed it very much in flimsy form, though I’m sad to see that they apparently use that hideous J. Scott Campbell cover for the collection.
  • They showed Long, primping and preening in flimsy muscle shirts that hugged every ripple in the fifty-seven year-old's startlingly chiseled physique.
  • Nor, perhaps, did they wish the supernatural to meld with the sexual, as otherworldly beings turned out to be alluring mortal women in flimsy garments.
  • Then suddenly I found myself alone, and flitting from dwelling to dwelling, from home to home; and everywhere the gentlemen were dressed in flimsy materials, and all more or less decked with trimmings.

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