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Synonyms for flimsy

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Synonyms for flimsy

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Synonyms for flimsy

a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies

lacking solidity or strength

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not convincing

lacking substance or significance

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With regard to unclean fishing stages, which are not uncommon, some fishermen actually do not seem to understand that in preparing an article of food it should be done in a scrupulously clean manner and even though the stage is flimsily constructed it can be, with little effort, scrupulously clean.
In this instant the projectile train, which hurtles to its destination, possibly to its destruction, carrying passengers within flimsily constructed wagons, may be viewed from another perspective: that of the observer in its path.
Rather flimsily, he claims that to rent the yard next door and add another four horses is the extent of his ambition.
In other words, the intelligent-design drive is religion flimsily repackaged as science.
Nevertheless, this Pontiac LeMans was so flimsily built that when it was hit in the right rear area, it folded up like a tin can.
With all this in mind, we should not expect the mundane inventions of Autumn Sonata to have objective credibility; the characters' motives are flimsily explored, the actualities of their lives not dramatized but reported after the fact.
I kneel down and the hem of my dress floats flimsily for a moment, encircling me, before the water penetrates and it sinks.
Neither Aldrich's flimsily sourced expose nor Coulter's legal hysterics made much of a dent in the public discourse.
Singleton translation, published in 1970 by Princeton in the Bollingen series (in thick volumes so flimsily made that mine have long since collapsed into bundles of pages held together with rubber bands) which is a masterful piece' of scholarly summary, once again says
The first impression from the foundations of houses at Wharram was that its peasants built rather flimsily, but subsequent work has suggested that the main timber frame was well constructed and had a long life span.
Flimsily clad dancers ascend and descend in endless, uniform succession on multilevel platforms, sometimes half-seen behind them, ghostlike and insubstantial.
The fence had been put up flimsily so it was no surprise that it was down.
The flimsily based confidence of Chapter 8 wholly undermines its cogency as a conclusion.
It can also make for a statement that seems gauche if not disengaged, for that which seems most engage is everywhere relentlessly if flimsily ironic.