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paper-thin
adjective as in paper
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adjective as in thin
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For someone interested in upending how Americans perceive free speech, Rosenbaum presents a series of paper-thin arguments.
“Her support is broader than I would like, but it's paper-thin,” Shays says.
The chest protector was paper-thin with the faded mark of “Spalding” in the top left hand corner.
The walls were paper-thin, and he could hear all comings-and-goings at his end of the flophouse.
Clegg won the leadership by a paper-thin majority in late 2007.
This room with paper-thin walls, sheltered perhaps twenty men, each cot jammed close to its neighbor.
Paper-thin transparent crustaceans swam into view, followed by a few white shrimps, pale as ghosts.
There was no paper-thin covering on her chairs, bed, and dressing table.
None of your featherweight, gas-lightened, paper-thin alloy shells, but toughened aluminum from stern to stern.
A clamp of artificial matter took it, and held the paper-thin sheet, many feet square, in the air.
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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to paper-thin, such as: cardboard, disposable, insubstantial, papery, and wafer-thin.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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