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

But Rollins remained dismissive of the band, telling the New York Times decades later that he regarded the Stones’ music as a flimsy simulacra of work by Black artists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

But the flimsy resume could explain, Spencer, why you’ve been taking so many social media-fueled potshots at Bass without offering anything of substance.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

“Lately I’ve been thinking hope is kind of a flimsy feeling to hold on to,” I confess.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

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

It was curious to see the contents of those press agent flimsies transcribed on the flaring columns as the livest news obtainable.

From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells

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

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

She describes your having taken these flimsies from a number of others you carry in your pocket.

From Lord Stranleigh Abroad by Barr, Robert

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

“It gets turned into a piece of lace, he says. It gets turned into this much flimsier thing, a thing full of holes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 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

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

The Chobot-Collier team never speaks to the authorities, or any police at all, save for the handlers of a cadaver dog used in a search for Theresa’s body, an effort launched on the flimsiest lead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

Corbet’s desire to stick it to the man takes over the film’s last stretch, which is also its flimsiest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 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

We would hover over our circular dining table — the shape best suited for sharing dishes family-style — folding and chuckling over the flimsiest looking sui gao.

From Salon ● May 26, 2022

His own was the flimsiest cotton, and tender in every fiber from long wear.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw