flimsy

Jeers to yet another flight with flimsy power outlets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

According to testimony from the two survivors, their flimsy boat began to deflate and take on water after several hours at sea.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Zhu, meanwhile, once labelled rogue bankers as "half-wits" and described the flood dykes lining the Yangtze River as "flimsy and porous as tofu dregs".

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Michelangelo left the flimsy door standing open, so the fresh morning air swirled into the little house.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

"So I supposed," growled the grizzled old man, who sat at a big desk upon which was piled many flimsies.

From The Lost Naval Papers by Bennet Copplestone

"I'd better take these two notes away," he said, beginning to fold up the flimsies.

From The Grell Mystery by Frank Froest

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 William Alexander Fraser

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

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

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

Suspects were swept up in Afghanistan or Pakistan, often on the flimsiest of tip-offs.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

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

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