flimsy

He labelled rogue bankers as "half-wits" and said the dams and flood dykes lining the Yangtze River were as "flimsy and porous as tofu dregs".

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

Only so much about the subjects who are made the focus of the program can be discerned from flimsy data that’s some 2,000 years old.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

It took her forever to get down the stairs, turned sideways, gloved hands gripping the flimsy railing, booted feet groping for every snowy step.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

No fisherman upon the sea ever tangled fish more successfully than we women with our flimsies.

From The Valley of the Moon by Jack London

All are dressed in paper flimsies of various shapes and colours.

From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs

The grey editor with a gruff voice threw over a bundle of flimsies.

From The Green Rust by Edgar Wallace

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

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

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

City agencies have long been criticized for being too quick to remove children from homes for the flimsiest of reasons.

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2021

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

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw