flimsy

Maybe he’s convinced himself of a flimsy case.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

In dirty t-shirts and flimsy sandals, hundreds of unaccompanied minors slept outdoors in a disused industrial park in Ceuta after swimming to the Spanish territory from Morocco, AFP saw Saturday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

While well liked, some in the party saw him as flimsy, with all the chat, but not the substance.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

The switches were so flimsy that setting the alarm at anything beyond the hour or half was a gamble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Her red velvet shoes felt flimsy and thin against the wetness of the chamber.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

Otto, melodramatically helped by various Black-Fronters, fled the country, started his years of writing and smuggling through revolutionary flimsies and stickers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Army lieutenant in trackman's flimsies stepped into the discus ring.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I'd better take these two notes away," he said, beginning to fold up the flimsies.

From The Grell Mystery by Frank Froest

Well, two ugly dogs came in, and said, 'Let us see the flimsies, before you see the kid.'

From A Simpleton by Charles Reade

Though Mrs. Paul ably handled the house, there was one thing Saxon insisted on doing—namely, washing her own pretty flimsies.

From The Valley of the Moon by Jack London

Another flaw: “soft-story” buildings, where the ground floor is flimsier than the upper floors, making it easier for it to topple in a quake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026

However, that argument too, is looking flimsier given how expensive AI models are to build for relatively little payoff.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

Many have been enduring temperatures well below freezing in flimsier tent-like units with blue plastic sheeting on the outside and a quilted cotton lining inside.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

In fact, she didn’t always rap in her now recognizable deep, rich timbre: Her 2019 mixtape, “Most Likely Up Next,” features a higher, flimsier register, though sparks of her relentless energy start to shine through.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2023

The old mansion still stands deep within this property, though most of the flimsier structures around it have been swallowed by time and the elements.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

But it’s just as much about journalistic malpractice, ethical outrages and the besmearing of reputations on the flimsiest of evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025

“I would certainly not be opting to have this flimsiest of the cases go first,” Diamond said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

In an age when everyone makes a fetish of authenticity, friendships are shown to be the flimsiest and least authentic of constructs, mediated by TikTok and easily destroyed by an illicit text chain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2022

And Mr. Putin has demonstrated over the last decade that the flimsiest of disguises is good enough.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

Even those Muggles who do notice Porlock droppings or Streeler trails—it would be foolish to suppose that all traces of these creatures can be hidden—appear satisfied with the flimsiest non-magical explanation.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling