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Definition of flimsy in English: flimsyadjectiveflimsier, flimsiest ˈflɪmziˈflɪmzi 1Insubstantial and easily damaged. Example sentencesExamples - Nothing could stop him, not even this flimsy barrier.
- Maybe that's why they're there, to add structural strength because of the somewhat flimsy nature of aluminium.
- He believes the new-style permits issued by the council are too flimsy and not sticky enough.
- Boasting four fire buttons, plus a fairly flimsy throttle control, this too has plenty of features.
- Like a huge pressure pushing against my skin, I could feel it trying to claw its way out of me, trying to push through the flimsy barrier of flesh my body provided.
- From the opposite end, through a flimsy barrier of water-damaged ceiling tile, he could hear the catch in his grandmother's chest as she breathed.
- They could have easily slipped past the flimsy barricade of starguards but the monsters merely threw themselves at them, incinerating and ripping in a frenzy.
- Suddenly they all seem desperately flimsy for the job.
- Furthermore, the wild gales in summer could sometimes easily blow down the flimsy sheds.
- The majority are trying to reach the Canary Islands in flimsy boats.
- She was also loyal, and loveable, and very easy to talk to - once one got past the flimsy barriers she had up.
- The door that covers the DVD drive area seems solid, but the mounting gear - particularly the hinge - is somewhat flimsy and jams quite easily.
- A warped rationale twisted and struggled madly to keep back the torrent rising against the flimsy barrier of his lie.
- I pounded through the door, and it began to shake; it was rather flimsy.
- The families had erected flimsy tents by stitching rags together.
- They are absolute zealots at trying to stop us from making backups of the media we purchase on flimsy, unprotected, easily damaged disks but have never once offered a remedy for the reason we need to make backups.
- Dawn woke, shivering on the cold, hard ground in the flimsy tent that the Shadows had erected.
- And while the reporter and photographer were at the site, its lack of security was shown when a group of teenage boys easily slipped through the flimsy plastic fence to switch on a water pipe.
- The nail file on these clippers is about two inches long - if that - and incredibly flimsy.
- The handbrake looks very out of place and somewhat flimsy compared to the rest of the interior.
Synonyms insubstantial, slight, light, fragile, breakable, frail, shaky, unstable, wobbly, tottery, rickety, ramshackle, makeshift jerry-built, badly built, thrown together, cheap, shoddy, gimcrack - 1.1 (of clothing) very light and thin.
the flimsy garment fell from her Example sentencesExamples - He literally trembled with excitement as he slid his right foot into the flimsy garment and pulled it up to his thigh.
- He had barely braced himself with some of his wife's flimsy dresses and a vacuum cleaner before the entire foundation shook with the impact of the rocket against it.
- The longer, flimsy skirt hanging out of a coat is a rather edgy trend right now.
- Men wearing short-sleeved shirts and girls in flimsy dresses and bare legs happily parade about in practically sub-zero temperatures.
- She is wearing a light, flimsy dress, very fey, and her face has a faraway expression.
- Here Kristine sat in a flimsy dress, proudly carrying Cassie on her arm.
- Each song received great cheers - and a couple of pairs of flimsy underwear were thrown onstage before the night ended.
- He had on a blue V-neck sweater over a loose T-shirt, a short, rather flimsy jacket, jeans, sneakers, and no hat.
- Fayette was dressed in an even flimsier dress than usual that left nothing to the imagination.
- Silvia (who makes an omelette to die for and has a nice line in flimsy clothing) works on the shop floor at the local underwear factory.
- Dr Wright, who is also a member of the UK Skin Cancer Working Party, said that a wearer who tended to burn easily could suffer sunburn after only three hours if wearing the flimsy shirt without extra suncream.
- I unzipped the covering and inwardly groaned at the sight of the flimsy white dress.
- Plus there was only a flimsy shower curtain between the two of us.
- Now that she was closer, Vigilante could see her better, and noticed that she wore a flimsy nightgown.
- She looks pretty in a flimsy nightgown of a dress.
- I was half asleep, standing out in the freezing cold with nothing but a flimsy coat to defend my racking bones from the frigid cold.
- As Mona she wears glittering, flimsy garments with sheer embroidered scarves, hennaed hair, nail varnish and lipstick.
- There was a woman too, dressed in a flimsy robe, curled up in a chair just to the side of the big man.
- She is inside, her flimsy clothing soaked through.
- Whatever you do, there's no denying that dresses are great to take on holiday - a light, flimsy slip can be easily scrunched into the corner of your case, making it a sloppy packer's dream.
Synonyms thin, light, lightweight, fine, ultra-fine, diaphanous, sheer, delicate, insubstantial, floaty, filmy, silken, chiffony, gossamer, gossamer-thin, gossamer-like, gossamery, gauzy, gauzelike, cobwebby, feathery translucent, transparent, see-through rare transpicuous, translucid - 1.2 (of a pretext or account) weak and unconvincing.
Example sentencesExamples - We chose not to publish at the time as independent confirmatory evidence was too flimsy.
- But my flimsy excuses and confusing metaphors weren't enough to keep myself convinced.
- Once again the exegetical basis is too flimsy to support the revisionist view.
- The Herald denounced the verdict, saying it was the " flimsiest of evidence".
- Excuses seem flimsy, and even the best are still just excuses.
- Their only real purpose is to provide a flimsy excuse to make a recommendation.
- What is particularly fascinating, however, is that the whole story is built on such a very flimsy foundation.
- "What the police did was to detain on the flimsiest of pretexts."
- At school, I cheated at the Rubik's Cube twice: once by removing the tiles under the flimsy pretext of ‘seeing how the joints worked’ and again, by reading the book.
- But the case against him was so flimsy that he was released without charge six days later.
- Any evidence by such an expert would have been based on the flimsiest foundation.
- I'll also not forget the scene in Othello when Iago talks The Moor into believing something which flimsy evidence would easily prove to be false.
- Significant proportions of us die every year on the flimsiest of pretexts.
- A couple of psychologists have claimed on the basis of very flimsy evidence that Australians are particularly " authoritarian".
- The evidence was so flimsy that the case should never have gone to trial.
- Obviously this rather flimsy argument by elimination carries very little weight by itself.
- Reality seemed flimsy; certainties were abandoned, and threats were constant.
- What more evidence is required when the imagination conjures up the flimsiest of evidence?
- No, we can't let them squeak by with a flimsy excuse like that.
- A handful had remained loyal to their oath as doctors or to their basic sense of decency and had refused to carry out instructions, citing valid excuses or flimsy pretexts.
Synonyms weak, feeble, poor, inadequate, insufficient, thin, unsubstantial, unconvincing, implausible, unsatisfactory, paltry, trifling, trivial, shallow
nounPlural flimsies ˈflɪmziˈflɪmzi British 1A document, especially a copy, made on very thin paper. Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately, my classics skills suffered so much from my extracurricular activities in the pub that my product deteriorated to the point that I could not give my flimsies away.
- Regardless of where the control finally ends up, however, the historic days of operators copying flimsies, lining switches, and setting signals locally, have ended.
- 1.1mass noun Very thin paper.
Derivatives adverb ˈflɪmzɪliˈflɪmzəli There are several coincidences in the story at present that hold it together flimsily. Example sentencesExamples - Still with tremendous bad-boy cachet, but no longer interested in tearing himself to pieces, he is on the road promoting the most flimsily hedonistic of his albums, ‘Party.’
- In the end, such an effort is meant, rather flimsily, to ‘keep hope alive,’ at a time when serious doubts about the viability of the present set-up are forming in many minds.
- The act is also flimsily founded on a vague definition of ‘intent’.
- Cannes, that jet set Mecca, is a place well known over the years for gorgeous women dressing flimsily in order to promote their projects.
- The challenge will be crucial because nowhere in the country is the party more flimsily represented than on our own Town Council.
- However, several strands are left untied, or, more frustratingly, are only flimsily tied to the main story.
- Instead she serves up flimsily anecdotal evidence in support of her broader arguments.
- I struggled flimsily to argue as he gesticulated erratically before me.
- Jun's body bounced back from the impact like a rag doll against a wooden wall, sending signals of pain into the young man's body as he dropped down flimsily to the ground below.
noun ˈflɪmzɪnəsˈflɪmzinəs Suddenly on the bridge this morning I felt the flimsiness of all my substance, but not so much because I'd missed something. Example sentencesExamples - The very flimsiness of the restraining order is, however, telling, for it seems to indicate a broader tolerance for the rough and ready manner in which men sometimes come on to women.
- Tension holds everything together, making architecture out of otherwise unsupportable flimsiness.
- Some of that picture is true: despite his regal grandeur, Henry was well aware of the flimsiness of the Tudor claim to the throne and was desperate to sire a healthy male heir.
- They were so poor, both in the quality of their play and in the flimsiness of their nerve when protecting a lead.
- The gliding motion of the sails, their white flimsiness and quick transformations gave whatever formations they shaped and the places they represented a distinct air of insubstantiality and evanescence.
- Was this some agent of the Real World trying to alert me to the flimsiness of my constructed consciousness?
- This view may have been more tenable in Durkheim's own time than it seems in ours, for in our own times what one might call the flimsiness of many occupational affiliations and of the related employments has become quite apparent.
- Flimsiness was no longer fashionable and the voice became more often a vehicle for content, not vice versa.
- Mountstuart's flimsiness as a novelistic character is supposed to make the book more realistic by acknowledging that personality is nebulous in itself.
Origin Early 18th century: probably from flimflam. Definition of flimsy in US English: flimsyadjectiveˈflimzēˈflɪmzi 1Comparatively light and insubstantial; easily damaged. voyagers who crossed the sea in flimsy boats Example sentencesExamples - The nail file on these clippers is about two inches long - if that - and incredibly flimsy.
- She was also loyal, and loveable, and very easy to talk to - once one got past the flimsy barriers she had up.
- From the opposite end, through a flimsy barrier of water-damaged ceiling tile, he could hear the catch in his grandmother's chest as she breathed.
- The majority are trying to reach the Canary Islands in flimsy boats.
- Suddenly they all seem desperately flimsy for the job.
- Dawn woke, shivering on the cold, hard ground in the flimsy tent that the Shadows had erected.
- Maybe that's why they're there, to add structural strength because of the somewhat flimsy nature of aluminium.
- They could have easily slipped past the flimsy barricade of starguards but the monsters merely threw themselves at them, incinerating and ripping in a frenzy.
- Like a huge pressure pushing against my skin, I could feel it trying to claw its way out of me, trying to push through the flimsy barrier of flesh my body provided.
- The door that covers the DVD drive area seems solid, but the mounting gear - particularly the hinge - is somewhat flimsy and jams quite easily.
- He believes the new-style permits issued by the council are too flimsy and not sticky enough.
- They are absolute zealots at trying to stop us from making backups of the media we purchase on flimsy, unprotected, easily damaged disks but have never once offered a remedy for the reason we need to make backups.
- The handbrake looks very out of place and somewhat flimsy compared to the rest of the interior.
- Boasting four fire buttons, plus a fairly flimsy throttle control, this too has plenty of features.
- I pounded through the door, and it began to shake; it was rather flimsy.
- The families had erected flimsy tents by stitching rags together.
- Nothing could stop him, not even this flimsy barrier.
- And while the reporter and photographer were at the site, its lack of security was shown when a group of teenage boys easily slipped through the flimsy plastic fence to switch on a water pipe.
- Furthermore, the wild gales in summer could sometimes easily blow down the flimsy sheds.
- A warped rationale twisted and struggled madly to keep back the torrent rising against the flimsy barrier of his lie.
Synonyms insubstantial, slight, light, fragile, breakable, frail, shaky, unstable, wobbly, tottery, rickety, ramshackle, makeshift - 1.1 (of clothing) light and thin.
I wore flimsy clothes and needed warming Example sentencesExamples - He literally trembled with excitement as he slid his right foot into the flimsy garment and pulled it up to his thigh.
- I was half asleep, standing out in the freezing cold with nothing but a flimsy coat to defend my racking bones from the frigid cold.
- I unzipped the covering and inwardly groaned at the sight of the flimsy white dress.
- Whatever you do, there's no denying that dresses are great to take on holiday - a light, flimsy slip can be easily scrunched into the corner of your case, making it a sloppy packer's dream.
- Silvia (who makes an omelette to die for and has a nice line in flimsy clothing) works on the shop floor at the local underwear factory.
- She is inside, her flimsy clothing soaked through.
- He had on a blue V-neck sweater over a loose T-shirt, a short, rather flimsy jacket, jeans, sneakers, and no hat.
- She is wearing a light, flimsy dress, very fey, and her face has a faraway expression.
- Plus there was only a flimsy shower curtain between the two of us.
- As Mona she wears glittering, flimsy garments with sheer embroidered scarves, hennaed hair, nail varnish and lipstick.
- Men wearing short-sleeved shirts and girls in flimsy dresses and bare legs happily parade about in practically sub-zero temperatures.
- Now that she was closer, Vigilante could see her better, and noticed that she wore a flimsy nightgown.
- She looks pretty in a flimsy nightgown of a dress.
- He had barely braced himself with some of his wife's flimsy dresses and a vacuum cleaner before the entire foundation shook with the impact of the rocket against it.
- Each song received great cheers - and a couple of pairs of flimsy underwear were thrown onstage before the night ended.
- Dr Wright, who is also a member of the UK Skin Cancer Working Party, said that a wearer who tended to burn easily could suffer sunburn after only three hours if wearing the flimsy shirt without extra suncream.
- Here Kristine sat in a flimsy dress, proudly carrying Cassie on her arm.
- Fayette was dressed in an even flimsier dress than usual that left nothing to the imagination.
- The longer, flimsy skirt hanging out of a coat is a rather edgy trend right now.
- There was a woman too, dressed in a flimsy robe, curled up in a chair just to the side of the big man.
Synonyms thin, light, lightweight, fine, ultra-fine, diaphanous, sheer, delicate, insubstantial, floaty, filmy, silken, chiffony, gossamer, gossamer-thin, gossamer-like, gossamery, gauzy, gauzelike, cobwebby, feathery - 1.2 (of a pretext or account) weak and unconvincing.
Example sentencesExamples - Once again the exegetical basis is too flimsy to support the revisionist view.
- The evidence was so flimsy that the case should never have gone to trial.
- At school, I cheated at the Rubik's Cube twice: once by removing the tiles under the flimsy pretext of ‘seeing how the joints worked’ and again, by reading the book.
- Excuses seem flimsy, and even the best are still just excuses.
- But the case against him was so flimsy that he was released without charge six days later.
- Any evidence by such an expert would have been based on the flimsiest foundation.
- But my flimsy excuses and confusing metaphors weren't enough to keep myself convinced.
- Significant proportions of us die every year on the flimsiest of pretexts.
- We chose not to publish at the time as independent confirmatory evidence was too flimsy.
- Reality seemed flimsy; certainties were abandoned, and threats were constant.
- "What the police did was to detain on the flimsiest of pretexts."
- A handful had remained loyal to their oath as doctors or to their basic sense of decency and had refused to carry out instructions, citing valid excuses or flimsy pretexts.
- No, we can't let them squeak by with a flimsy excuse like that.
- I'll also not forget the scene in Othello when Iago talks The Moor into believing something which flimsy evidence would easily prove to be false.
- What is particularly fascinating, however, is that the whole story is built on such a very flimsy foundation.
- A couple of psychologists have claimed on the basis of very flimsy evidence that Australians are particularly " authoritarian".
- Obviously this rather flimsy argument by elimination carries very little weight by itself.
- The Herald denounced the verdict, saying it was the " flimsiest of evidence".
- Their only real purpose is to provide a flimsy excuse to make a recommendation.
- What more evidence is required when the imagination conjures up the flimsiest of evidence?
Synonyms weak, feeble, poor, inadequate, insufficient, thin, unsubstantial, unconvincing, implausible, unsatisfactory, paltry, trifling, trivial, shallow
nounˈflimzēˈflɪmzi British 1A document, especially a copy, made on very thin paper. Example sentencesExamples - Regardless of where the control finally ends up, however, the historic days of operators copying flimsies, lining switches, and setting signals locally, have ended.
- Unfortunately, my classics skills suffered so much from my extracurricular activities in the pub that my product deteriorated to the point that I could not give my flimsies away.
- 1.1 Very thin paper.
Origin Early 18th century: probably from flimflam. |