flimsy

Mohammed Annour spent much of his youth living in a flimsy shelter in a dusty, overcrowded refugee camp in east Africa, where the days were long, the food was poor and the future nonexistent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Treasury yields reversed a flimsy decline caused by relatively mild inflation data to end a volatile quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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

For six months, the 586th Regiment had been defending strategic positions in their dangerous solo Yak fighters and the 588th Regiment had been harassing German troops with bombs dropped from their flimsy Po-2s.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

"I'd like to know how many flimsies there are in that packet," said Capel.

From Tom Gerrard by Louis Becke

Every night he and the other sub-editors, young and unhealthy-looking men, sat round a big table, handling "flimsies" and scribbling rapidly.

From The Foolish Lovers by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine

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

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

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

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

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

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

I came in late, repeatedly and with the flimsiest of excuses; made shockingly incorrect change; even misshelved things on purpose, stocking lotions among laxatives and birth control with baby shampoo.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs