flimsy

But the characterizations are too flimsy, the world only moderately textured.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Allowing a lawsuit to proceed based on such a flimsy claim of injury would open the floodgates to all manner of claims that rest on nothing more than individuals’ feelings, not concrete injury.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

A blink-and-you'll-miss-him appearance from a substitute who was supposed to be a leader, a senior man, a guy to nurse Rangers to the endgame with their flimsy 1-0 lead intact.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Maybe he’s convinced himself of a flimsy case.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

He laid Cari beside a flimsy crepe myrtle sapling he’d planted the spring before.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

A noted forger of these shams is said to have resided in the immediate neighbourhood about the period named on the discovered "flimsies."

From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Thomas T. Harman

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 Jack London

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

But it’s just as much about journalistic malpractice, ethical outrages and the besmearing of reputations on the flimsiest of evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 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

We would hover over our circular dining table — the shape best suited for sharing dishes family-style — folding and chuckling over the flimsiest looking sui gao.

From Salon ● May 26, 2022

Happily he let out that for years organic chemists had been arbitrarily favoring particular tautomeric forms over their alternatives on only the flimsiest of grounds.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson