Lacking substance or significance; a fragile claim to fame"
Easily broken or damaged or destroyed.
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Examples for "thin "
Examples for "thin "
1 Young and thin , Miss Leroy never gave Olson Read a second thought.
2 She'd gone out with a too-tall, too - thin history major for several months.
3 Still, analysts said given the thin trading volume, volatility will likely prevail.
4 Muhyiddin has had a razor - thin majority since coming to power in March.
5 The not so thin blue line meant sure escape was not possible.
1 Young Nicolaus did admirably, his slight young body going a good distance.
2 But get under way as soon as possible.' Again the slight hesitation.
3 In recent years, Greece's much-criticised pension system has seen a slight improvement.
4 That said; don't allow a slight chill to impact on personal relationships.
5 Women's power to make decisions also showed slight improvement in some cases.
1 The material composing the cloak was in general exceedingly light and flimsy .
2 The whole flimsy furniture in the chambers of the general mind vanished.
3 Just says really, a few flimsy pages stapled in a paper cover.
4 The email server has been a particularly effective attack despite being flimsy .
5 Abu Fadi was building a flimsy structure for his family of 11.
1 Violence long preceded computer games, so the link is tenuous at best.
2 US secretary of state, John Kerry, acknowledged the tenuous situation in Kobani.
3 Still, this strikes me as a rather tenuous way of securing information.
4 Orthodox molecular models often bear a tenuous relationship to the coordinate data.
5 The relationship you draw between migration and productivity therefore seems somewhat tenuous .
1 However, markets remain volatile and consumer sentiment is fragile , the company said.
2 Liikanen said the euro zone was still in a very fragile situation.
3 In Canterbury the health system remains fragile and is facing enormous challenges.
4 Their day's repair work underlined how fragile the island's power system remains.
5 Great care must be taken not to damage the pyramids' fragile structures.
6 Without solid institutions and a healthy political center freedom is always fragile .
7 There could be a relatively fragile situation developing over the coming weeks.
8 The effect of the Bankia news on fragile financial markets was devastating.
9 The eventual MAX return will also test an increasingly fragile aviation market.
10 A Chilean environmental court in December called the Atacama ecosystem particularly fragile .
11 Yet when Clusius arrived there, civic confidence was in a fragile state.
12 Will employment be guaranteed to former commission workers in socially fragile areas?
13 Although an election is not scheduled until 2022, May's government remains fragile .
14 But fragile demand means investors will be sceptical of the new schedule.
15 Britain's banking sector remains fragile more than five years after the crash.
16 All that is set against an increasingly fragile political and structural backdrop.
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