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Flimsy   /flˈɪmzi/   Listen
adjective
Flimsy  adj.  (compar. flimsier; superl. flimsiest)  Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection. "Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines." "All the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain."
Synonyms: Weak; feeble; superficial; shallow; vain.


noun
Flimsy  n.  
1.
Thin or transfer paper.
2.
A bank note. (Slang, Eng.)





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"Flimsy" Quotes from Famous Books



... to me that you're building an awfully involved theory out of pretty flimsy stuff," ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett
... minds with their refined, infinitesimal, homeopathic 'developments' of deity; metaphysical wolves in Socratic cloaks. Oh, they have much to answer for! 'Spring of philosophy!' ha! ha! They have made a frog pond of it, in which to launch their flimsy, painted toy barks. Have done with them, Beulah, or you ...
— Beulah • Augusta J. Evans
... in her flimsy silk draperies. "Well, of course, if you've got other plans made, I ain't goin' to urge you, Esther," said she; "but any time you feel disposed to come, you'll be welcome. Good-evenin', Esther. Good-evenin', ...
— Jane Field - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... impression that it is beyond defence and impossible to justify. It is not surprising that people begin to say: "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. Let us experience all we desire. Let us act like the normal healthy creatures that we are. Let us ignore the flimsy barriers a corrupt and imbecile moral code would erect between us ...
— Sex And Common-Sense • A. Maude Royden
... highest reward of the journalist. No honours, no money, no fame can ever satisfy him as does the knowledge that by means of his pen he is influencing the thoughts, and winning the affections, of some at least of that vast unknown public whom it is his duty to address. A sheet of paper is but a flimsy thing, yet, as a rule, when used by the journalist it cuts off the electric current of sympathy which passes between speaker and auditor when they are visible to each other. The discovery that it may sometimes be a conductor, instead of an obstruction, to the current warms the ...
— Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 • Stuart J. Reid, ed.


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