Alton Brown

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.

American Entertainer

Billy Howle

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.

English Actor

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.

Harlan Coben

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.

American Author

Robert Winston

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.

British Scientist

Carrie Brownstein

In the realm of fakery, I would choose 'Rock Band' over 'American Idol' or over any of the other flimsy truths masquerading as music.

American Musician

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Roman Statesman

Hill Harper

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

American Actor

Trish Regan

Using flimsy evidence to spy on innocent citizens could very well be a crime.

American Journalist

Spike Jonze

Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.

American Director

Use 'flimsy' to describe objects that can break easily due to poor quality or design.

Physically Weak

'Flimsy' implies that something lacks the necessary strength or stability expected.

Lacking Strength

If an item is easily damaged or torn, describe it as 'flimsy'.

Easily Damaged

'Flimsy' indicates that an argument or excuse lacks credibility or convincing power.

Not Credible

Use 'flimsy' when suggesting an argument or idea is unsupported by sufficient evidence.

Lacking Evidence

'Flimsy' can refer to clothing made from light, translucent fabrics that may feel insubstantial.

Light Clothing

Clothing described as 'flimsy' may be revealing due to thin or fine material.

Revealing Fabric

'Flimsy' clothing implies a casual, perhaps fashionable, look but suggests a lack of practicality.

Casually Stylish

 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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 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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 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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 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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 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.

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 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,

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 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.

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 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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 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.

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 place bodily they begin plainest at the age of two years but sometimes their initial flimsy efforts need more practice

Flimsy

Something that is thin, weak, or not strong.

Often appears as...

An idea, excuse, or argument that is not likely to be true or believable.

Often appears as...

Of clothing that is light and thin.

Often appears as...

Physically Weak

Lacking Strength

Easily Damaged

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