flimsy

In the frenzied stampede, his flimsy wooden coffin broke and his white shrouded body tumbled into the crowds.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 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

And certainly not a flimsy, clunky Luka Doncic-and-Antetokounmpo Lakers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 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

“Maybe right here? That old tent was flimsy, and now we’ve got a chance to make a better one.”

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman

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

If there are no flimsies, the leaf opposite a plate often shows a set-off from it and is sometimes specially badly foxed.

From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

Letters were letters in those days, and not the notes and cards and "flimsies" of to-day.

From The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone by Tombs, Robert Charles

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

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

Another flaw: “soft-story” buildings, where the ground floor is flimsier than the upper floors, making it easier for it to topple in a quake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026

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

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

The Chobot-Collier team never speaks to the authorities, or any police at all, save for the handlers of a cadaver dog used in a search for Theresa’s body, an effort launched on the flimsiest lead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

Corbet’s desire to stick it to the man takes over the film’s last stretch, which is also its flimsiest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

“I would certainly not be opting to have this flimsiest of the cases go first,” Diamond said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

City agencies have long been criticized for being too quick to remove children from homes for the flimsiest of reasons.

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2021

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

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw