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Definition of Flimsier
1. flimsy [adj] - See also: flimsy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flimsier
Literary usage of Flimsier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Things Men Fight for: With Some Application to Present Conditions in Europe by Harry Huntington Powers (1916)
"The fabric of the Turkish Empire looked imposing, but it had been built with
flimsier and flimsier workmanship as time went on. The Balkan kingdoms had been ..."
2. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"So he cut into his wife's stateroom from above with an axe; she was asleep in
the upper berth, the roof a flimsier one than was supposed; the first blow ..."
3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"Here were deeper reasons than the superficial talk of a new man, which appeared
still flimsier in the drawing-room over the shop, when they were recited to ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
""Much more alarming," he admits, "is the comment that England's popular periodicals
are flimsier than their counterparts in America. ..."
5. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1903)
"So he cut into his wife's stateroom from above with an axe; she was asleep in
the upper berth, the roof a flimsier one than was supposed; the first blow ..."
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