Flimsy in a sentence as a noun

How does he know if the foundations are flimsy or not?

[3]He seems to have the expertise to know that this story is flimsy, and not well-founded in science.

A "strawman" is where you set up a flimsy counter point to your own argument and then defeat it.

The author asserts that the new policy is based on "flimsy foundations".

You can't make large-scale decisions that will affect millions based on flimsy predictions that may turn out to be wrong.

The idea "it shouldn't matter what language this is written in" sounds good on paper, but it is actually quite flimsy.

The fact that a proper assessment might show the troll to have a flimsy case only reinforces the idea that there may be room to resist, if you do it right.

They seem flimsy because they are flimsy, and they are flimsy because well crafted, long lasting shoes are big and burly with lots of material and stitching.

Flimsy in a sentence as an adjective

The main purpose of open offices is to save on real estate costs, stimulating more spontaneous collaboration is just a flimsy excuse.

I suppose Katrina was similar with the temporary housing situation, but in this case we are talking a flimsy bamboo / wooden structure with plastic tarps on the sides.

" expert who totally believes youre a different person for having read books even if you dont retain anything, with some flimsy feel-good reasoning such as the extraordinary capacity for storage that our brains have"This is better reasoning than that put forth by the author by far. I love the quotes around "expert".

He came to the US as a wealthy man, paid for the education, invested his money into stock trading then invested his proceeds into some flimsy venture written in PHP and created thousands of jobs and billions of wealth for risky investors.

Yahoo gets insulted and asked to go away for suing Facebook, while Apple repeatedly attempts to prevent Samsung from being able to sell devices because of some very flimsy patent objections and people laud them as creative geniuses.

The terrifying thing about the case is people are ready to hate him because of flimsy rape allegations, even on Hacker News!Anyway, I guess the point of this post is Assange isn't all that obnoxious if you ignore the rape media circus.

That would've led tech minded folks to give Metro more credit than all this upvoted noise with link bait headlines on the tech blogs with flimsy analysis of only about how it sucks and nothing about the good parts like "content over chrome" or "authentically digital".

Flimsy definitions

noun

a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies

See also: onionskin

adjective

lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"

adjective

not convincing; "unconvincing argument"; "as unconvincing as a forced smile"

See also: unconvincing

adjective

lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"

See also: fragile slight tenuous thin