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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