| 单词 | flimsy |
| 释义 | flimsy (once / 2320 pages) nadj You can describe weak, thin, and fragile things as flimsy. Onion smells are strong, onion skins are flimsy. Blaming onions for making you cry during a sad movie, that's a flimsy excuse, when there are no onions in the theater. A flimsy object and a flimsy objection or excuse are both without weight and are easy to knock down. You can see right through a flimsy curtain, and you can see right through a flimsy lie. If a tent or house of cards is flimsy, it will fall down with a slight breeze, and if your story isn't convincing anyone, it's probably weak and flimsy enough to flatten, too. WORD FAMILYflimsy: flimsier, flimsies, flimsiest, flimsily, flimsiness+/flimsiness: flimsinesses USAGE EXAMPLESUsing cardboard, plaster, papier-mâché and tempera paints, Greely, 37, builds flimsy vignettes that seem to spring from a grade-schooler’s imagination. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) Yet that was the flimsy basis for Comey’s letter to Congress reopening the Clinton probe. Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) Many arrive malnourished or injured, only to be herded aboard flimsy rafts and rickety boats by smugglers for the treacherous journey north. New York Times(Dec 21, 2016) 1n a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies Syn|Hyper onionskin typewriter paper, typing paper writing paper suitable for use in a typewriter 2adj lacking solidity or strength a flimsy table flimsy construction Syn weak wanting in physical strength 3adj lacking substance or significance Syn fragile, slight, tenuous, thin insignificant, unimportant devoid of importance, meaning, or force 4adj not convincing Syn|Ant unconvincing unpersuasive not capable of persuading incredible, unbelievablebeyond belief or understanding convincing causing one to believe the truth of something credibleappearing to merit belief or acceptance disenchanting, disillusioningfreeing from illusion or false belief persuasiveintended or having the power to induce action or belief |
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