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flimsy
adjective as in not strong; light, thin
adjective as in unconvincing, implausible
Example Sentences
Beans is never fazed by the challenge, but the characters can’t help but come across as flimsy masks.
The journey Thanh described is now an established route from Vietnam to the UK - a path heavily promoted by smugglers on Facebook, who charge clients for forged documents, flights, buses, and a place on a flimsy rubber boat.
Comparing one to a “death trap”, he says it would be “appallingly dangerous” to pack dozens of people onto these boats for a Channel crossing, because of what appears to be a “tremendously flimsy” design.
Before the self-service grocery, outlets required patrons to show up with detailed lists of items they needed and hand those lists to a clerk who would gather the items, which were either loose in bins or in flimsy generic packaging with no ingredients or labels.
Tucci’s notes that Christl’s versions look more beautiful than the actual garments, which are a “little flimsy.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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