flimsy

ˈflɪmzi

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#1·8h ago

Likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial.

He expected the flimsy structure to collapse at any moment.

Origin: The origin of the is ; it is possibly from (noun) false information presented as true, misinformation, nonsense; poor attempt at deception, confidence trick, pretence; (adjective) frivolous, nonsensical; deceptive; fictitious or a + . The are derived from the noun. refers to the fact that the containers often split along their seams and leaked. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·8h ago

A thing which is ill-founded, unconvincing, or weak.

She dragged the cover off the typewriter with sound and fury, jerked the desk-drawers till they slammed against the drawer-stops, shook the top-sheet carbons and flimsies together as a terrier shakes a rat, and attacked the machine tempe…

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#3·8h ago

(also, attributive, uncountable) Thin typing paper used together with carbon paper in a typewriter to make multiple copies of a document; (countable) a sheet of such paper.

Smiley peered once more at the flimsy which he still clutched in his pudgy hand.

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