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• The police arrested him on the strength of some rather flimsy evidence.From the entry on the strength of
• Some thrift shops, glutted with flimsy, synthetic wares, have stopped accepting fast-fashion donations.2021 February 6, Rachel Monroe, “Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World”, in The Atlantic. From the entry thrift shop
• Milk floats were flimsy at the front (especially the three-wheelers) but very strong at the back.2016, Andrew Ward, No Milk Today: The Vanishing World of the Milkman, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry milk float
• Chuff is trying to pass off a flimsy reproduction as the real thing.2007, Jerry L. Walls, Gregory Bassham, Basketball and philosophy: thinking outside the paint. From the entry unfooled
• But the overall effect is flimsy and insubstantial, a gifted writer punching well below his weight.2001 September 29, “For men who should know better”, in The Telegraph, UK, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2013. From the entry punch below one's weight
• The 7.62 tumblers would buzzsaw through the flimsy protection offered by the float.1990, Kyle Maning, Blood Storm, page 53. From the entry buzzsaw
• Join the gum-feathered fancies of their flimsy flight – An Icarian end!1959 April 22, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 34. From the entry Puseyism
• Don't let flimsy, makeshift guards "hazardize" your machines or spoil appearance and working efficiency.1948, Safety Engineering, page 55. From the entry hazardize
• I’ve flown in flimsy microlights, soaring serenely above rich farmland.2020 December 5, Nic Robertson, “Saudi Arabia has changed beyond recognition. But will tourists want to visit?”, in CNN. From the entry helicopter
• Body parts are scattered about the cemetery where bombs have landed, uprooting the corpses from their flimsy paper-mache coffins.2018, Paul French, City of Devils, Picador, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 234. From the entry Chapei
• It doesn't sound like spring to me, or like green grass or garlands of flowers or girls in flimsy dresses.2009, Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 196. From the entry Verna
• He had it in his hand, a flimsy brown file plucked from the catacombs of the public prosecutor's office.2008, John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man, →ISBN, page 303. From the entry make the weather
• Since you mention getting the wrong size, I suspect you are talking about the drugstore ones which are pretty flimsy.2002 August 31, Klarissa, “OT(nails fake or real )”, in alt.gothic.fashion (Usenet), retrieved 19 May 2022. From the entry xdress
• Waiting for him to leap forward and rip off his flimsy flightsuit, exposing his shame: his illustrated body, Rimmer's cheating frame.1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers. From the entry shame
• Celestial asked for a screwdriver and the bartender poured a good four fingers of Smirnoff into a flimsy cup before opening a can of juice.2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 154. From the entry screwdriver
• She makes the most out of the flimsy plot, filling out her prima donna character with campy temper tantrums and snappy comebacks.2018 December 6, Sonia Rao, “The top 10 movie scene-stealers of 2018, from Awkwafina to Hugh Grant”, in The Washington Post, Washington…. From the entry Hathahater
• But this girl in the flimsy dress, a girl who couldn't seem to break eyelock with the Greek god standing behind her?2013, Joan Kilby, Gentlemen Prefer Nerds. From the entry eyelock
• The company motto, as appearing on all letters and fliers during most of their existence, is 'We make mincemeat of flimsy reality'.2001, John Rudlin, Olly Crick, Commedia Dell'arte: A Handbook for Troupes, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry make mincemeat of
• Purple pollexes because they smashed the daylights out of their digits trying to drive four penny finishing nails into flimsy bits of moulding.1977 June 26, Chris Peck, “Purple thumbs tell of tool machines”, in Times-News, 72nd year, number 252, Twin Falls, Ida., page 5, column 1. From the entry pollex
• With air beneath them, the rangy wings seem to gain strength; the fuselage that on the ground seemed flimsy becomes elegant, like a crane vaunting in flight.2013 September 6, Tom Cheshire, “Solar-powered travel”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, archived from the original on 11…. From the entry plane
• For example, the Patient's Charter requires nurses to respect the privacy, dignity and confidentiality of patients, yet planners still design bedspace divided by flimsy curtains, in multi-million pound projects.2013, Michael Bowman, The Professional Nurse: Coping with Change, Now and the Future. From the entry bedspace
• 'Goods will be safer there, stacked tight, than in our flimsy shops,' he said, and then went on his way to warn and befright our other neighbours.2006, Mary Hooper, Petals in the Ashes, page 137. From the entry befright
• Only when we know how 'many-mansioned' the universe of reality really is can we hope to have a philosophy that shall rest upon anything but the flimsiest foundations.1911, Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, The Philosophical Review, volume 20, page 558. From the entry mansioned
• There was a steel napkin dispenser, the napkins themselves those little trifolds that manage to be both flimsy and sturdy at the same time, which seems impossible, but is not.2012, Chris Pavone, The Expats, →ISBN. From the entry trifold

Meaning of flimsy

1. adjective Likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial.
2. adjective Of clothing: very light and thin.
3. adjective Of an argument, explanation, etc.: ill-founded, unconvincing, weak; also, unimportant; paltry, trivial.

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How do you use flimsy in a sentence?

Flimsy is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “He expected the flimsy structure to collapse at any moment.”

What is a short sentence with flimsy?

“a flimsy excuse”

What does flimsy mean?

Flimsy means likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial.