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as in unsubstantial
being of a material lacking in sturdiness or substance
a flimsy scarf that was more for decoration than for warmth
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as in unlikely
not likely to be true or to occur
"The check is in the mail" is a pretty flimsy and tired excuse
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Recent Examples of flimsy
Moreover, lids, which are even more flimsy than the containers themselves, are best put on the top shelf.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024
These are apartment buildings with carports, garages or retail stores on the ground floor, with flimsy supports that can collapse in the side-to-side shaking of an earthquake.
—Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
Elsewhere, men, women and children walk barefoot among a sea of tents made of flimsy sheeting.
—Abeer Salman, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
Many buildings collapsed or were heavily damaged, from wooden apartments with flimsy ground stories — known as soft-story buildings — to concrete medical offices and a department store, to a steel-frame building housing the Automobile Club of Southern California.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
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Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024
These are apartment buildings with carports, garages or retail stores on the ground floor, with flimsy supports that can collapse in the side-to-side shaking of an earthquake.
—Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
Elsewhere, men, women and children walk barefoot among a sea of tents made of flimsy sheeting.
—Abeer Salman, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
Many buildings collapsed or were heavily damaged, from wooden apartments with flimsy ground stories — known as soft-story buildings — to concrete medical offices and a department store, to a steel-frame building housing the Automobile Club of Southern California.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flimsy
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Salads Salads don’t have to feel flimsy or unsubstantial.Katie Workman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
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From a personal finance perspective, people with extra cash should feel free to put an unsubstantial portion of their wealth into high-risk, high-volatility assets like crypto or meme stocks or even Super Bowl bets (thanks for the two-touchdown performance, Cooper Kupp).Scott Nover, Quartz, 14 Feb. 2022
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The plaintiffs are the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians, two physicians and the four women testifying this week, who learned while pregnant that their fetuses were unlikely to survive.Aria Bendix, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Gunmen from the Manfredi and Bevilaqua outfits, led by weed store employee and unlikely sharpshooter Grace, take out the rest of the Triads.Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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If those arguments appear insubstantial, the jury verdict and injunction should stand.Alden Abbott, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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Not insubstantial, but easily affordable for Tepper, who’s worth roughly $20 billion.Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 14 June 2024
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But with great power, comes great responsibility and - in this case - comes greater fragility (a quantum state can be said to be brittle or fragile, mostly due to the speed at which machines at this level work) and greater potential for errors.Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Developing tourism in a fragile environment is a tricky balancing act.Chris Morris, Fortune Europe, 5 Nov. 2024
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No matter how far-fetched the premise or gossamer-thin the story, the musical invites (compels) us to go along with its essential surrealism, to travel to that dream space where everyday life suddenly moves and sounds deliriously out of this world.Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 7 May 2020
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For her label Anissa Aida, designer Anissa Meddeb, who lives in the capital, makes gossamer silk blouses evoking the striped motif of handwoven fouta towels and voluminous coats inspired by the burnoose cloaks worn by Berbers.Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2020
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Bridges were needed not just to fulfill a gauzy City Beautiful dream, but for practical reasons.Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2022
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Having grown up working in his mother’s Los Angeles hair salon, Bradford adopted a primary artmaking material that is not paint, but rather small gauzy papers used to curl hair.Matthew Bourbon, Dallas News, 22 Apr. 2020
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The sheer scale of phones used in the study let the researchers correct individual bias by comparing the devices against each other.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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The sheer number of cyclists snarled traffic and prompted restrictions by the city's tourism-hungry officials, who had encouraged them to come.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Amid that delicate task, the central bank could fall under an uncomfortable political spotlight should Trump follow his previous pattern of publicly attacking Fed Chair Jerome Powell.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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The neuroscientist and brain surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco, was studying the brain activity behind speech, that precise and delicate neural choreography by which lips, jaw, tongue, and larynx produce meaningful sounds.Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Flimsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flimsy. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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