This car is so flimsily constructed!. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a flimsy fabric; a flimsy structure. ,a flimsy excuse. From Dictionary.com.
Much of it is flimsily contrived, sentimental and toothlessly melodramatic. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Story: Her Husband Is Sleeping With His Wife] Reference
So flimsily was the place constructed that he made even the walls to tremble. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
I was first made aware of this by hitting a somewhat flimsily-constructed fruit stand. From Wordnik.com. [Through St. Dunstan's to Light] Reference
Besides, these garments flimsily adorned ever-so-photogenic, muscular, bronzed bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Semana Santa Holy Week in San Miguel de Allende] Reference
But these partnerships were flimsily capitalized, some of them with Enron's own stock. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall Guy SpeaksEnron's Fall Guy Stands Up] Reference
Maigret walked on ponderously beside this flimsily built cadet who was trembling like a leaf. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret in Holland]
But Sam thought he'd been convicted on flimsily put-together circumstantial evidence, nonetheless. From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Pier]
Removing the back to put in the battery all I kept thinking was “wow, it really flimsily plastic!”. From Wordnik.com. [T-Mobile officially launches the G1; not everyone cares « Boy Genius Report] Reference
Among the dead and injured were 5000-7000 students at a number of flimsily built schools which collapsed. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Walden: Apres Le Deluge: A New School Opens In China A Year After The Quake] Reference
And as for "society," it rustled flimsily, like tissue-paper; bright, in a way, but still thin and crackling. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
Neither the antiquated junks nor the flimsily constructed forts of the enemy were any match for our men-of-war. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference
But sometimes the bags are flimsily packed and explode on impact with the ground, or the aid tumbles into the water. From Wordnik.com. [Still marooned: plight of flood-stricken villagers in Pakistan's Sindh province] Reference
What is beyond dispute is that so many buildings collapsed because they were so flimsily constructed in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [Haiti: an act of Devil « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
Soon after, leaks sprang up everywhere and the flagship was revealed as the flimsily designed, hollow-hulled lemon that it truly is. From Wordnik.com. [Darin Murphy: Thirty-Six Months in a Leaky Boat] Reference
But the bunkbeds were so difficult to set up and and so flimsily made, that we were frustrated with ourselves for spending the money. From Wordnik.com. [On Costly Toys] Reference
I guess that's why nobody's taken a pair of nail clippers and 20 seconds in order to liberate this flimsily-locked Madone in Denver, CO. From Wordnik.com. [Letting it All Hang Out: Naked Riders, Vulnerable Bikes] Reference
"This is a flimsily-constructed building," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Merriwell's Bravery] Reference
There is only a lonely doorman behind a flimsily padlocked gate. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
These new houses are flimsily built; they might hear you upstairs. From Wordnik.com. [Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time] Reference
There have been some flimsily sourced stories about him and his campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
To prevent you from having to haul Apple's flimsily built charging cable. From Wordnik.com. [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference
She saw her flimsily constructed love world shattered by the girl before her. From Wordnik.com. [Rose O'Paradise] Reference
Good thing the answering machine of the flimsily presumed mother of the student was full. From Wordnik.com. [Pogue's Posts] Reference
Still, it's easy to understand why so flimsily a supported theory garners such vast support. From Wordnik.com. Reference
There was a smile at this, for the valiant junior was small for his age, and flimsily built. From Wordnik.com. [A Dog with a Bad Name] Reference
It is in fact merely a very flimsily veiled protectionist step on the part of US imperialism. From Wordnik.com. [In Defence of Marxism] Reference
"The trick is to build quickly, within two months, but not flimsily," Patrick Coulombel deems. From Wordnik.com. [t r u t h o u t] Reference
Which means that your security is only as trustworthy as these CAs, which are only flimsily regulated. From Wordnik.com. [Public marks] Reference
He's much easier in front of the camera now, and he makes the flimsily written character rather likeable. From Wordnik.com. [rediff.com] Reference
I wasn't sure if that meant I shouldn't be urinating over people and flimsily tried to remember when or why. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
She is not a criminal or malignant creature, but her light malice is capable of playing flimsily with any atrocity. From Wordnik.com. [Robin] Reference
With an episode devoted entirely to flashbacks laced together flimsily, tonight's may be the definitive jumping of the shark. From Wordnik.com. [Ace of Spades HQ] Reference
In a minute the hut was a mass of flames, the sparks communicating the fire to the flimsily-constructed buildings adjoining it. From Wordnik.com. [Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force] Reference
The story also incorporates, flimsily rewritten, two actual murders that had occurred contemporaneously in his home city of Chicago. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
There was her own case; had she for an instant suspected how flimsily based was her own idea of herself and of her place in the world?. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Generation] Reference
When harsh weather strikes, tents are uprooted and blown away, or their ramshackle shelters lose flimsily constructed roofs and walls. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Tan Zuoren, who investigated the collapse of flimsily built school buildings, was just jailed for five years for "inciting subversion". From Wordnik.com. [nst online] Reference
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