Sentence examples similar to a flimsy assertion from inspiring English sources

A lower federal appeals court dismissed Mr. Masri's civil lawsuit, wrongly bowing to the Bush administration's flimsy assertion that proceeding would risk revealing "state secrets".

But good journalists have this pesky habit of asking for facts demanding she prove the flimsy assertions which form the walls of her make-believe world.

It's a flimsy argument.

Truth is a flimsy thing.

That is just a flimsy fig leaf.

Mr. Specter said Mr. Mukasey's assertion that he could not address the legality of waterboarding because he had not been briefed about it was "an excuse, and a flimsy excuse".

History provides only a flimsy guide.

It sounds like a flimsy excuse.

Kendrick argued that chilling effects have a "flimsy" empirical basis.

A flimsy frame surrounding a marvelous performance.

A flimsy red carpet decorated the sidewalk.