flimsy
Likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial.
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Especially trying to sneak this in under reconciliation AND upping the price tag to 1 billion?! And the stated reason from the incident at the WHCD is such a flimsy, obvious Con —Trump did not stop attending public e…
This flimsy chain ain't gonna last, and neither am I 🎨: @derdeutschepfau.bsky.social
Oh, Flimsy Steve, where have you gone? What have you seen?
Got my roller wheels set up. But… the bolts are flimsy and may not hold her weight. In future casts I’m going to add holes for them to fit into. For Mina I’m using a foam to keep her secured in place. Hopefully by…
Daylight has always been the best way forward in fair societies. Dictatorships don't allow prisoners to have their say. This seems very unfair, especially in light of the recent miscarriages of justice. It seems…
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Likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial.
He expected the flimsy structure to collapse at any moment.
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(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.
“Daylight has always been the best way forward in fair societies. Dictatorships don't allow prisoners to have their say. This seems very unfair, especially in light of the recent miscarriages of justice. It seems the Jeremy Bamber conviction was flimsy in the first instance”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Oh my, I wouldn't want to go to the pub with the young team. Flimsy, that's what they are... 😉”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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A thing which is ill-founded, unconvincing, or weak.
“Especially trying to sneak this in under reconciliation AND upping the price tag to 1 billion?! And the stated reason from the incident at the WHCD is such a flimsy, obvious Con —Trump did not stop attending public events or even golfing.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“This flimsy chain ain't gonna last, and neither am I 🎨: @derdeutschepfau.bsky.social”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Oh, Flimsy Steve, where have you gone? What have you seen?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Got my roller wheels set up. But… the bolts are flimsy and may not hold her weight. In future casts I’m going to add holes for them to fit into. For Mina I’m using a foam to keep her secured in place. Hopefully by the weekend I can put her new skin on!!!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The conversion process was really easy until this part. Wobbling this piece to move felt *very* scary. Even then, it never felt like it wanted to snap into place. I usually leave this to user error (mine), but the combination of flimsy and rigid pieces had me spooked.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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