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

Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt reprise their roles from the 2006 comedy in this flimsy fashion-world sequel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

I’d seen the flimsy line that separated getting by and going under.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

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)

Then I could see something was concealed under the Lascar's flimsies.

From Old Junk by Ratcliffe, S. K. (Samuel Kerkham)

This morning he brought me a pocket-book, and in it eigh—ty pound flimsies.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various

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

“It gets turned into a piece of lace, he says. It gets turned into this much flimsier thing, a thing full of holes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 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

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

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

Even those Muggles who do notice Porlock droppings or Streeler trails—it would be foolish to suppose that all traces of these creatures can be hidden—appear satisfied with the flimsiest non-magical explanation.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling