Sentence examples for flimsy pretense from inspiring English sources

To skeptics, the parity mantra sounded like a flimsy pretense for slashing player salaries.

The first half of the novel, which Mosley spends getting Bennet into his cell in Charles's basement, feels like a fairly flimsy pretense for the ensuing dialogues on evil.

Surely, neither our politicians nor our society have evolved to such a state of flimsy pretense that the mere mouthing of choice words from a school yard dictionary is sufficient to absolve people from their transgressions.

But the pretense is flimsy: this is a fancy food court, and it fulfills its function with gusto.

No pretense".

Flimsy bread.

"How flimsy sanity was".

Just no pretense".

"It's too flimsy".

It's flimsy construction.

Flimsy kitchen appliances?