Flimsy
adjective
Something that is thin, weak, or not strong.
The flimsy card table collapsed under the weight of the drinks
Often appears as...
- flimsy excuse
- flimsy argument
adjective
An idea, excuse, or argument that is not likely to be true or believable.
His flimsy excuse for arriving late didn't convince anyone
Often appears as...
- flimsy pretext
- flimsy alibi
adjective
Of clothing that is light and thin.
She wore a flimsy dress in the windy weather
Often appears as...
- flimsy dress
- flimsy fabric
adjective
Something that is thin, weak, or not strong.
The flimsy card table collapsed under the weight of the drinks
Often appears as...
- flimsy excuse
- flimsy argument
adjective
An idea, excuse, or argument that is not likely to be true or believable.
His flimsy excuse for arriving late didn't convince anyone
Often appears as...
- flimsy pretext
- flimsy alibi
adjective
Of clothing that is light and thin.
She wore a flimsy dress in the windy weather
Often appears as...
- flimsy dress
- flimsy fabric
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physically Weak
Use 'flimsy' to describe objects that can break easily due to poor quality or design.
The flimsy plastic chair cracked as he sat down.
Pro Tip 2/3Lacking Strength
'Flimsy' implies that something lacks the necessary strength or stability expected.
The flimsy branches snapped in the strong wind.
Pro Tip 3/3Easily Damaged
If an item is easily damaged or torn, describe it as 'flimsy'.
Her flimsy notebook tore after a week of use.
Pro Tip 1/3Physically Weak
Use 'flimsy' to describe objects that can break easily due to poor quality or design.
The flimsy plastic chair cracked as he sat down.
Pro Tip 2/3Lacking Strength
'Flimsy' implies that something lacks the necessary strength or stability expected.
The flimsy branches snapped in the strong wind.
Pro Tip 3/3Easily Damaged
If an item is easily damaged or torn, describe it as 'flimsy'.
Her flimsy notebook tore after a week of use.
Pro Tip 1/3Physically Weak
Use 'flimsy' to describe objects that can break easily due to poor quality or design.
The flimsy plastic chair cracked as he sat down.
Pro Tip 2/3Lacking Strength
'Flimsy' implies that something lacks the necessary strength or stability expected.
The flimsy branches snapped in the strong wind.
Pro Tip 3/3Easily Damaged
If an item is easily damaged or torn, describe it as 'flimsy'.
Her flimsy notebook tore after a week of use.
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Jason Silva on Focus PIPE...
minds to their tool and when those tools start dovetailing back then the line between user and tool becomes flimsy I think the brain is an energy-saving system sort of decides what's the useful information and then everything else you can delete the brain has a mental map an internal model of the world that it has to interface with and so if I take the
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Leana Wen: What your...
put up a wall, and hide behind it. There's a hidden epidemic in medicine. Of course, patients are scared when they come to the doctor. Imagine you wake up with this terrible bellyache, you go to the hospital, you're lying in this strange place, you're on this hospital gurney, you're wearing this flimsy gown,
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4 environmental...
which means they're building the world -- personally, one by one, family by family, clan by clan, neighborhood by neighborhood. They start flimsy and they get substantial as time goes by. They even build their own infrastructure. Well, steal their own infrastructure, at first.
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Chasing Rivers, Part 1:...
because we've just lost an oar, we're going to plan B'. This is 'Oh we are going to die' because we are going into the big kahuna wave now with no oars. We're taking this little tiny flimsy wooden boat, through the middle of this giant rapid and we realize we're about to flip.
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A promising test for...
but also, due to the properties of these nanotubes, it will change its electrical properties, based on the amount of protein present. However, there's a catch. These networks of carbon nanotubes are extremely flimsy. And since they're so delicate, they need to be supported.
Video examples
Which bag should you...
So, to get the full story on these grocery bags we need to look at how they’re made, how they’re used, and where they ultimately go. Let’s start with plastic. The typical thin and flimsy plastic bag is made of high-density polyethylene,
Video examples
Rachel Botsman: The case...
that this isn't a flimsy idea, or a short-term trend, but a powerful cultural and economic force reinventing not just what we consume, but how we consume. Now I'm going to start with a deceptively simple example.
Video examples
In the Mouth of a Polar...
here's what you should consider armed with a flimsy branch you're within reach of an apex predator and desperately trying to save a helpless victim from
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Who were Las Mariposas,...
But Trujillo's plan to silence the Mirabal sisters and stabilize his regime backfired. Much of the public wasn’t fooled by the flimsy coverup.
Video examples
Dian Fossey Narrates Her...
place bodily they begin plainest at the age of two years but sometimes their initial flimsy efforts need more practice
Video examples
Jason Silva on Focus PIPE...
minds to their tool and when those tools start dovetailing back then the line between user and tool becomes flimsy I think the brain is an energy-saving system sort of decides what's the useful information and then everything else you can delete the brain has a mental map an internal model of the world that it has to interface with and so if I take the
Video examples
Leana Wen: What your...
put up a wall, and hide behind it. There's a hidden epidemic in medicine. Of course, patients are scared when they come to the doctor. Imagine you wake up with this terrible bellyache, you go to the hospital, you're lying in this strange place, you're on this hospital gurney, you're wearing this flimsy gown,
Video examples
4 environmental...
which means they're building the world -- personally, one by one, family by family, clan by clan, neighborhood by neighborhood. They start flimsy and they get substantial as time goes by. They even build their own infrastructure. Well, steal their own infrastructure, at first.
Video examples
Chasing Rivers, Part 1:...
because we've just lost an oar, we're going to plan B'. This is 'Oh we are going to die' because we are going into the big kahuna wave now with no oars. We're taking this little tiny flimsy wooden boat, through the middle of this giant rapid and we realize we're about to flip.
Video examples
A promising test for...
but also, due to the properties of these nanotubes, it will change its electrical properties, based on the amount of protein present. However, there's a catch. These networks of carbon nanotubes are extremely flimsy. And since they're so delicate, they need to be supported.
Video examples
Which bag should you...
So, to get the full story on these grocery bags we need to look at how they’re made, how they’re used, and where they ultimately go. Let’s start with plastic. The typical thin and flimsy plastic bag is made of high-density polyethylene,
Video examples
Rachel Botsman: The case...
that this isn't a flimsy idea, or a short-term trend, but a powerful cultural and economic force reinventing not just what we consume, but how we consume. Now I'm going to start with a deceptively simple example.
Video examples
In the Mouth of a Polar...
here's what you should consider armed with a flimsy branch you're within reach of an apex predator and desperately trying to save a helpless victim from
Video examples
Who were Las Mariposas,...
But Trujillo's plan to silence the Mirabal sisters and stabilize his regime backfired. Much of the public wasn’t fooled by the flimsy coverup.
Video examples
Dian Fossey Narrates Her...
place bodily they begin plainest at the age of two years but sometimes their initial flimsy efforts need more practice
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Alton Brown
American Entertainer
A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.
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Billy Howle
English Actor
The true art is being able to take whatever the writer's done, and if it is a bit flimsy or it is a bit rushed or is just box-ticking writing, then the true artist would be able to make that come off the page and sing for an audience or a viewer. I'm still learning how to do that properly.
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Mary Nightingale
Gradually, we fell in love with camper-vanning. It's a strange business to begin with - rather like driving a large, rather flimsy cardboard box. It's ugly, the suspension's appalling, you rattle around like pebbles in a tin, and you can't hear yourself speak above the engine.
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Harlan Coben
American Author
I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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Robert Winston
British Scientist
I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.
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Carrie Brownstein
American Musician
In the realm of fakery, I would choose 'Rock Band' over 'American Idol' or over any of the other flimsy truths masquerading as music.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman Statesman
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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Hill Harper
American Actor
You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.
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Trish Regan
American Journalist
Using flimsy evidence to spy on innocent citizens could very well be a crime.
Quote examples
Spike Jonze
American Director
Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.
Quote examples
Alton Brown
American Entertainer
A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.
Quote examples
Billy Howle
English Actor
The true art is being able to take whatever the writer's done, and if it is a bit flimsy or it is a bit rushed or is just box-ticking writing, then the true artist would be able to make that come off the page and sing for an audience or a viewer. I'm still learning how to do that properly.
Quote examples
Mary Nightingale
Gradually, we fell in love with camper-vanning. It's a strange business to begin with - rather like driving a large, rather flimsy cardboard box. It's ugly, the suspension's appalling, you rattle around like pebbles in a tin, and you can't hear yourself speak above the engine.
Quote examples
Harlan Coben
American Author
I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
Quote examples
Robert Winston
British Scientist
I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.
Quote examples
Carrie Brownstein
American Musician
In the realm of fakery, I would choose 'Rock Band' over 'American Idol' or over any of the other flimsy truths masquerading as music.
Quote examples
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman Statesman
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Quote examples
Hill Harper
American Actor
You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.
Quote examples
Trish Regan
American Journalist
Using flimsy evidence to spy on innocent citizens could very well be a crime.
Quote examples
Spike Jonze
American Director
Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.
Example 1 of 10
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