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Definition of Flimsiest
1. flimsy [adj] - See also: flimsy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flimsiest
Literary usage of Flimsiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Last Trial by Jury for Atheism in England: A Fragment of by George Jacob Holyoake (1850)
"... without offering the flimsiest pretext, it is the duty of all to prevent this.
Such is the opinion of those gentlemen who set on foot these proceedings, ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, William Cowper (1838)
"He squinted, halted, gibbous was behind And pinch'd before, and on his tapering
head Grew patches only of the flimsiest down. He hated most, and therefore ..."
3. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"To the student of literature as such, the flimsiest sentiment or the merest
paradox aptly put is worth the sublimest truth ill expressed. ..."
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