flimsy
Example Sentences
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For as long as index funds have existed, they’ve been under attack from competitors flinging one flimsy pretext after another.
I slide the flimsy card up my sleeve and turn back around.
From Literature
The 8-foot by 8-foot sheds have become a staple of quick solutions to homelessness but face the criticism of being cramped, flimsy and undignified.
From Los Angeles Times
“He must have come up the mountain trying to get back home, and he ran out across the pool cover without realizing it was flimsy plastic,” Akira said.
From Literature
It was a transparently flimsy excuse, and Ms. Cook promptly sued on the grounds that the firing was illegal.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
