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flimsy English

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Definitions in simple English

flimsy

If something is flimsy, it is likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged.

flimsy

lacking solidity or strength a flimsy table flimsy construction (= fragile, slight, tenuous, thin) lacking substance or significance; ; ; ; a fragile claim to fame" slight evidence a tenuous argument a thin plot (= onionskin) a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies (= unconvincing) not convincing unconvincing argument as unconvincing as a forced smile

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  • What words describe something that is thin and weak?

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Simple sentences

For some inexplicable reason, the flimsy shack survived the storm.
You will open a flimsy brown door.

Movie subtitles

I felt kind of flimsy.
You know, that soft, flimsy, what-you-call-it stuff.
How flimsy is this argument?
So he gets rid of this Jackson with some flimsy excuse about cigars.
But this evidence is too flimsy to accuse a national hero.
Flimsy!
Put it on carefully - they're a bit flimsy.
It is obvious to me that the boy's entire story was flimsy.
Flimsy, sir.
It's too much for a skull and a flimsy story.
It's here on my flimsy.
The charges against her were flimsy, and she received a year of probation.
Rubber dinghies may be a bit flimsy for the Rhine.
Quite flimsy compared to.
He insists upon running a bank on so flimsy a thing as faith.
So he gets rid of this Jackson with some flimsy excuse about cigars. - And then he is alone.
The way I heard it, that Deering woman didn't have nothing but a flimsy peekaboo dress on.
I'm sorry. That's an extremely flimsy story.
I bet you they'll have some flimsy excuse.
Money. Oh, the odd flimsy I removed from the purse of your bookish wench.
And Mrs. Regnier is a little flimsy?
Sounds pretty flimsy.
That sounds like a flimsy excuse to me.
Around here, remodelled guns are so flimsy they break, so nobody goes bigger than a.22.
Women should renounce flimsy negligees and romantic nightgowns.
Be sure he recalls his flimsy denials when he's face to face with death's sweet smile.
His alibi is flimsy.
I think this paper is a flimsy hodgepodge. of pie graphs, factoids and Larry King.
She made me come to this ghastly place and I only consented on the understanding that she'd come too, and then, at the last moment, she backed out on the flimsy plea that some friend needs her.
When I look at my mother's flimsy shirt, her nipples.
Well, the lovely Magdalene's is flimsy,.and it was her luggage we found the diamond case in.
Pretty flimsy excuse for comin' by to see me.

News and current affairs

It is difficult to be optimistic about the success of an initiative built on such flimsy legal foundations, and lacking democratic legitimacy.
Why does the world economy look so flimsy?
These new stock exchanges, modeled on America's NASDAQ, ended up listing a lot of flimsy companies, and the collapse of share prices since 2000 caught them in the downdraft.
In the meantime, his obsession with dominating the daily news cycle, no matter how flimsy the pretext, continues unabated.
The credit crisis exposed the flimsy foundations of the sustained growth that the US and Europe enjoyed during the past four to five years.
To be sure, I have been exposed to flimsy sources, and newspapers of the future should help readers learn what a good source is, and what good citizen journalism requires.
Flimsy ideas thrive in the absence of a viable alternative.
Or will he be a repressive statist, papering over holes in a flimsy economy, not tackling big problems?

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