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Definition of Flimsily
1. Adverb. In a weak and flimsy manner. "This car is so flimsily constructed!"
Definition of Flimsily
1. adv. In a flimsy manner.
Definition of Flimsily
1. Adverb. In a flimsy manner ¹
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Definition of Flimsily
1. flimsy [adv] - See also: flimsy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flimsily
Literary usage of Flimsily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Metaphysical Inquiry Into Method, Objects, and Result of Ancient and Modern by Isaac Preston Cory (1833)
"of a very serious nature: inasmuch as under each of them lurks an hypothesis,
which is but flimsily concealed.* With respect to Heat itself the truth ..."
2. Fireproof Magazine edited by William Clendenin, Peter Bonnett Wight (1905)
"Xo country in the world, unless perhaps China, can show so many flimsily built
... Our fathers built rather flimsily and of combustible materials ; we have ..."
3. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"Why is it that cheap barns are so flimsily built? I know that our barn is cheap
because the rent for house and barn is less than what many a clerk, ..."
4. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1908)
"Probably it was not a building of the most excellent construction; but, on the
other hand, it did not appear to be built flimsily. It certainly suffered a ..."
5. The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906, and Their Effects by Grove Karl Gilbert, Richard Lewis Humphrey, John Stephen Sewell (1907)
"Lightly and flimsily constructed wooden buildings. Well-constructed wooden
buildings generally withstood the shock, but those that were flimsily built, ..."
6. The Savings Bank and Its Practical Work: A Practical Treatise on Savings by William Henry Kniffin (1918)
"Property that is well built carries less repairing charges than that which is
flimsily constructed, and the owner of a fireproof and modern building might ..."
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