adjective (flimsier, flimsiest)
1 badly made and not strong enough for the purpose for which it is used:
a flimsy bridge / table
2 (of material) thin and easily torn:
a flimsy piece of paper / fabric / plastic
3 difficult to believe:
a flimsy excuse / explanation * The evidence against him is pretty flimsy. * He keeps calling on the flimsiest of pretexts.
flimsily adverb
flimsiness noun [U]
