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flimsiness

/flim-zee/US // ˈflɪm zi //UK // (ˈflɪmzɪ) //

薄情寡义,薄弱,薄板,单薄

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    flim·si·er, flim·si·est.

    • : without material strength or solidity: a flimsy fabric; a flimsy structure.
    • : weak; inadequate; not effective or convincing: a flimsy excuse.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural flim·sies.

    • : a thin kind of paper, especially for use in making several copies at a time of an article, telegraphic dispatch, or the like, as in newspaper work.
    • : a copy of a report or dispatch on such paper.

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Examples

  • At under nine ounces per shoe, they feel flimsy out of the box, but even after a couple hundred miles they still have plenty of life.

  • Then there’s the reality that we are living in a global pandemic with a flimsy-at-best path to recovery.

  • When it comes to looking at CBD for pain relief, the research is even more flimsy.

  • On one of the planes, the only thing separating the infected from the non-infected was a flimsy plastic sheet.

  • The long-awaited tech antitrust report that the US Congress released on October 6 presents a remarkably flimsy case for action against the nation’s most innovative and competitive companies.

  • When it comes to invading foreign countries on false or flimsy pretexts, the Russians have lots of company.

  • Yet the scenery for this annus mirabilis production has always been rather flimsy.

  • On the last Sunday in March, Marina is hanging diapers on a flimsy clothesline stuck in the grass in the small backyard.

  • Then she disappeared, leaving me by myself in that flimsy little dress, my makeup smudged and my hair all over the place.

  • Zuckerberg, or at least the narrow, shallow portrait painted of him in The Social Network, seems to embody that flimsy promise.

  • That is a very flimsy pretext, so that the fiscals may not perform their duties faithfully against the governor.

  • But Garnache's rash temper, rising anew, tore that last flimsy chance to shreds.

  • In doing this engines were built of such flimsy construction that they soon went to pieces.

  • Its flimsy lock broke easily under the pressure, and he sprang inside.

  • Poor Mrs. Morton was a flimsy woman, without much stamina, mental or bodily.