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
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
Besides, these garments flimsily adorned ever-so-photogenic, muscular, bronzed bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Semana Santa Holy Week in San Miguel de Allende] 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
When harsh weather strikes, tents are uprooted and blown away, or their ramshackle shelters lose flimsily constructed roofs and walls. From Wordnik.com. 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
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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