flimsiness

Example Sentences

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Don’t get me wrong – her co-stars are the bonding agents strengthening this whimsical flimsiness.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2025

The state’s “refusal to withdraw the meritless assertions, the flimsiness of its request for extraordinary relief, and its use of the Maui tragedy, support a finding of frivolousness and bad faith,” the ruling said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2024

It may be too flip for some, but flippancy isn’t the issue — it’s the flimsiness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2023

The compressed, click-chasing nature of the op-ed might explain the flimsiness in some of her arguments.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2022

The nineteenth century’s infatuation with phrenology—to continue with a somewhat different heady concern—demonstrates the flimsiness of this line of thought.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos