flimsy

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  1. adjective Light, thin, and insubstantial: a flimsy fabric.
  2. adjective Lacking solidity or strength: a flimsy table.
  3. adjective Lacking plausibility; unconvincing: a flimsy excuse.
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  • Some portion of the gall, due only to these inflated, flimsy, and fantastic persons, appears to have acted on certain critics in estimating this play of Schiller's. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life of Friedrich Schiller, by Thomas Carlyle
  • The door of my chamber was flimsy, and I simply kicked it down with one blow from my good foot. —  F ;SF - vol 099 issue 03 - September 2000
  • Bonus features are flimsy, which is fine for a disposable movie like SEOUL RAIDERS. —  Kung Fu Cinema
  • Cons: Dirt cup way to small - Dyson was not Feels kind of flimsy, like it won't last that long The upholstery brush cannot be stored in the canister May Updates for Six-plexes —  Amazon Online News and Classifieds
  • Although many of their theories later proved flimsy, they at least appeared to address real problems with fresh thinking. —  Joe Conason - Joe Conason's Home on the web
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flimsy:   flimsies
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  1. Perhaps from Welsh llymsi, sluggish, spiritless, flimsy. The W. ll is a voiceless l, which is sometimes thought by English hearers to resemble th; th before l is in other cases represented by f (e. g., in flee; cf. fill, for thill). The same change, Welsh ll to English fl, appears in flummery, q. v.
 

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