Tonight, as flimsy as they are, she is glad to have them.

Brazil's case, all the same, is as flimsy as cigarette paper.

People thought the new frames looked as flimsy as the baskets they resembled.

She dismisses the restraints of practicality and time and distance as flimsy obstacles.

He experimented with many schemes, but threw them aside one by one as flimsy.

They wanted a light sort of binding, with flexible boards as flimsy as paper almost.

It looked as flimsy as a matchstick cabin.

In addition to protection from the elements, umbrellas have been used as flimsy shields against pepper spray.

The crowns were not as flimsy as they looked, and were reasonably comfortable once they were adjusted.

The wingback chair, already taxed by two occupants-neitherof whom could be described as flimsy in physique-swayedalarmingly.

What I'd thought of as reality was nothing but a scrim, as flimsy as an old nylon stocking.

While it starts out as flimsy paper, thanks to resin, fiberglass, and Bondo, the end result is amazingly sturdy.

The abstraction in my next example is less simple, but is quite as flimsy as a weapon of attack.

And now I had a witness to the crime, albeit one whose story was as flimsy as a bride's negligé.

Some of the deductive dot-joining might come across as flimsy, but Walsh's authoritative knowledge and sharp wit override such concerns.

The partition between this sitting room and that little bedroom is only an artificial one-somethingalmost as flimsy as a screen.