When it comes to invading foreign countries on false or flimsy pretexts, the Russians have lots of company.
On the last Sunday in March, Marina is hanging diapers on a flimsy clothesline stuck in the grass in the small backyard.
Then she disappeared, leaving me by myself in that flimsy little dress, my makeup smudged and my hair all over the place.
Zuckerberg, or at least the narrow, shallow portrait painted of him in The Social Network, seems to embody that flimsy promise.
Putin has taken off the flimsy mask of democracy to reveal himself in full as the would-be KGB dictator he has always been.
How eagerly we accept the argument, flimsy as it may be, which accords with our wishes!
He passed through, and the flimsy covering fell to behind him.
But the folding of the flimsy batch on his knee was executed with thoughtful nicety.
Their statements were flimsy, and guilt was plainly written on their faces.
It seemed a flimsy structure, supported only by tubular steel.
noun
A copy of a bill, artwork, etc, on thin paper (1857+)