flimsy

  • 21flimsy — 1. adjective Likely to bend or break under pressure; weak, shaky, flexible, or fragile. He expected the flimsy structure to collapse at any moment. Ant …

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  • 22flimsy — adj. Flimsy is used with these nouns: ↑evidence, ↑excuse, ↑pretence, ↑pretext, ↑structure, ↑tent …

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  • 23flimsy — adjective (flimsier, flimsiest) 1》 weak and insubstantial. 2》 light and thin: a flimsy garment. 3》 (of a pretext or account) weak and unconvincing. noun (plural flimsies) Brit. very thin paper. ↘a copy of a document, made on very thin paper.… …

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  • 24flimsy — flim•sy [[t]ˈflɪm zi[/t]] adj. si•er, si•est, 1) without material strength or solidity: a flimsy structure[/ex] 2) weak; inadequate 3) a thin paper 4) a copy made on such paper • Etymology: 1695–1705 flim′si•ly, adv. flim′si•ness, n …

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  • 25Flimsy — Тонкая бумага; папиросная бумага (для копий); Номер газеты; Телеграмма, телеграфное сообщение (в газету) …

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  • 26flimsy — Synonyms and related words: adulterated, airy, asinine, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, catchpenny, cheap jack, cobwebby, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, cut, dainty, decrepit, delicate,… …

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  • 27flimsy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sleazy, gossamer, fragile; tenuous, unsubstantial; feeble, weak. See weakness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [ Said of physical things ] Syn. slight, frail, weak, gauzy, sleazy, sheer, shoddy,… …

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  • 28flimsy — flim·sy || flɪmzɪ n. thin paper, paper used for copies adj. delicate, thin; frail, fragile; insubstantial; poorly made or constructed …

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  • 29flimsy — a. 1. Slight, thin, unsubstantial, of frail texture. 2. Weak, feeble, trivial, frivolous, foolish, trifling, light, puerile, shallow, superficial, trashy …

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  • 30flimsy — adj thin, light, slender, slight, delicate, filmy, diaphanous, airy, ethereal; sheer, silken, gossamer, cobwebby, gauzy. 2. weak, feeble, frail, fragile, unsubstantial; trivial, frivolous, immaterial, superficial, shallow, lacking force, vain,… …

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