flimsy

Still fragile and sickly, he was dismissed by one rival, Agrippa relates, as “a flimsy scrap of a man hiding behind an enormous name.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

But the characterizations are too flimsy, the world only moderately textured.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

So the possibility that A.I. might help is admittedly a flimsy source of comfort.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 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

The high wind rattled the flimsy walls; a door banged open and shut until somebody propped it open with a brick.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

A noted forger of these shams is said to have resided in the immediate neighbourhood about the period named on the discovered "flimsies."

From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Thomas T. Harman

“They’re counting out the flimsies right now,” Hartwell exulted.

From Jacob's Ladder by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

There may be a chance," commented Faust, scratching his fat poll meditatively; "the fellows like to keep these big bills, they're easier in the pocket than a whole bundle of flimsies.

From Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser

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

They’re the closest thing Asus has to a MacBook Air competitor, with chassis that are slightly flimsier, touchpads with fancier features, and price tags that are a bit less intimidating.

From The Verge ● Aug. 15, 2022

Napkins, restaurant checks, currency, all the flimsier items of daily life outdoors might easily have been borne off on the breeze.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2022

Then they started snapping their jaws and barking and bashing into the flimsy bars of Duke’s even flimsier cage.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

Suspects were swept up in Afghanistan or Pakistan, often on the flimsiest of tip-offs.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Beijing has also accused Washington of citing “even the flimsiest connection” such as the use of an American bank to assert jurisdiction over transactions that don’t primarily involve the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Tania von Uslar-Gleichen, an official at Germany’s Foreign Ministry and lead counsel in the case, told the 15-judge bench that Nicaragua had “rushed this case to court on the basis of the flimsiest evidence.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

And in this modern era of ubiquitous social media and technology, when there’s the impulse to make people famous for even the flimsiest of reality-TV reasons?

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

Just four more blocks, but my shoes are held to my feet with the flimsiest of straps; my skirt allows only for short, quick steps.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse