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to flimsy
adjective
Likely to bend or break under pressure; weak, shaky, flexible, or fragile.
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His convictions range from fickle to flimsy.
Mr. Grant likens that kind of weak security to flimsy locks on bathroom doors.
"Severely punish the corruption in the tofu construction," read the other, a reference to flimsy buildings.
In Japan the busy animation industry allied visual fireworks to flimsy narratives in the futuristic adventures Sama wozu (2009; Summer Wars; Mamoru Hosoda) and Redline (2009; Takeshi Koike).
Instead, they have resorted to flimsy pretexts and protectionist arguments to stifle liberties, which foreclose the possibility of placing discussions on gender on the agenda.
The movie swallows it whole, in the process reducing its principals to flimsy cutouts who wouldn't make the grade in a Mills & Boon novel.
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"Violets Are Blue" grasps for excitement more desperately than the last Cross book did and to flimsier effect.
The next day you have to return to tend to your flimsy vapors.
The status quo is now an ostensibly socialist one, and repression is being meted out by those with clinging to increasingly flimsy claim to represent 'el pueblo'.
Bloggers use these "substance words" (like Wikipedia's weasel words) to give status to their flimsy stories.
It would be irresponsible to publish flimsy papers just to provoke.
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