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

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

Fly any faster, and the flimsy craft would literally break apart under the strain.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

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

Then I could see something was concealed under the Lascar's flimsies.

From Old Junk by Ratcliffe, S. K. (Samuel Kerkham)

Letters were letters in those days, and not the notes and cards and "flimsies" of to-day.

From The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone by Tombs, Robert Charles

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

From The Green Rust by Wallace, Edgar

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

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

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

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

Happily he let out that for years organic chemists had been arbitrarily favoring particular tautomeric forms over their alternatives on only the flimsiest of grounds.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson