Synonym: dainty, delicate, fragile, frail, slight, weak. Similar words: clumsy, AIMS, himself, crimson, whimsical, by himself, slim, flip. Meaning: ['flɪmzɪ] n. a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies. adj. 1. lacking solidity or strength and liable to break 2. having little substance or significance 3. very thin and insubstantial 4. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness.
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31. Unfortunately he has concealed them behind a flimsy facade of demagoguery.
32. When I sit here with the laibon and his family I feel envious of their flimsy values.
33. My flimsy jacket was inadequate for the freezing Japanese weather.
34. This was as well, for even a single light raid would have reduced the flimsy huts to matchwood.
35. That looks good on the stat page, but Jody knows just how flimsy it is.
36. The spherical pressure hull formed the head of a flimsy, arrow-shaped structure more than a hundred yards long.
37. Lucien enjoyed spending time in his company, but anticipated the day when this flimsy alliance would end.
38. Alice struggled out of the flimsy pink nightgown and tossed it at the foot of the bed.
39. After all, he had little to go on - the evidence was too flimsy.
40. Further, the lower drag permits the use of large, flimsy, low-strength structures.
41. People were crammed into old, dilapidated buildings or flimsy shantytowns or crudely built new housing.
42. It shows that not all labourers' cottages were flimsy hovels and that families in this group could aspire to reasonable comfort.
43. It is not possible to review this novel without such a background sketch, however flimsy.
44. It wasn't as if he could see her in the flimsy satin nightdress, was it?
45. It had all been so flimsy that Pascoe had hesitated about presenting it to Dalziel.
46. One touch, one thought, one look was enough to break through the flimsy barrier.
47. It was impossible for me to sleep under a single flimsy blanket on such a cold night.
48. She dropped the flimsy pages on to the table-top, concentrated on whisking two egg yolks in a china bowl.
49. A crucial conversion from Nick Marment gave Gloucester a flimsy one point lead.
50. A freak wave overturned the flimsy vessels and they were left floating in the water in their lifejackets.
51. He lit the photographs one by one and let the flimsy black rectangles of ash drop into the bin.
52. He has always looked a chaser and his unexpected achievements over flimsy flights of timber make him a most exciting prospect.
53. It was almost a shock to realise that there were actually big waves out beyond the flimsy rim of woven basketwork.
53. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
54. The paper support for this is a flimsy piece of plastic, and a wire loop.
55. From the whalebone bodices of the nineteen hundreds to the flimsy teasers of the nineties.
56. This kind of paper is flimsy.
57. The flimsy room was a beaut.
58. He made a flimsy excuse.
59. They are very trusting, and eagerly believe any kind of flimsy official information.
60. The evidence was flimsy, and a campaign was launched to secure a re - trial.