flimsy

After the VA unveiled a plan during a federal court hearing in January to install 800 tiny homes on the campus, advocates for veteran housing criticized the 8-foot-by-8-foot sheds as cramped, flimsy and undignified.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

In the end, all that’s left is another thinly written woman in horror, camouflaged by tongue-in-cheek jokes and flimsy progressive ideas.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026

The hotel supplies a bath towel, hand towel, flimsy slippers and a disposable toothbrush and toothpaste.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

"This is a very flimsy foundation to build your entire industry on."

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

The kitchen to the left is no better, its counters piled with what I assume are the contents of the cupboards, which stand with their flimsy doors hanging open, empty.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Otto, melodramatically helped by various Black-Fronters, fled the country, started his years of writing and smuggling through revolutionary flimsies and stickers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Army lieutenant in trackman's flimsies stepped into the discus ring.

From Time Magazine Archive

There may be a chance," commented Faust, scratching his fat poll meditatively; "the fellows like to keep these big bills, they're easier in the pocket than a whole bundle of flimsies.

From Thoroughbreds by Fraser, William Alexander

But, Captain, sit down here, and overhaul our flimsies.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

Though Mrs. Paul ably handled the house, there was one thing Saxon insisted on doing—namely, washing her own pretty flimsies.

From The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack

However, that argument too, is looking flimsier given how expensive AI models are to build for relatively little payoff.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

Many have been enduring temperatures well below freezing in flimsier tent-like units with blue plastic sheeting on the outside and a quilted cotton lining inside.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

In fact, she didn’t always rap in her now recognizable deep, rich timbre: Her 2019 mixtape, “Most Likely Up Next,” features a higher, flimsier register, though sparks of her relentless energy start to shine through.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2023

They’re the closest thing Asus has to a MacBook Air competitor, with chassis that are slightly flimsier, touchpads with fancier features, and price tags that are a bit less intimidating.

From The Verge ● Aug. 15, 2022

The old mansion still stands deep within this property, though most of the flimsier structures around it have been swallowed by time and the elements.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Beijing has also accused Washington of citing “even the flimsiest connection” such as the use of an American bank to assert jurisdiction over transactions that don’t primarily involve the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

And in this modern era of ubiquitous social media and technology, when there’s the impulse to make people famous for even the flimsiest of reality-TV reasons?

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

When you're rejecting the evidence based on the flimsiest of arguments that don't hold any water at all, that's not skepticism.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2023

In an age when everyone makes a fetish of authenticity, friendships are shown to be the flimsiest and least authentic of constructs, mediated by TikTok and easily destroyed by an illicit text chain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2022

His own was the flimsiest cotton, and tender in every fiber from long wear.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw