paper-thin

[ pey-per-thin ]
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adjective
  1. extremely thin: a paper-thin razor blade.

  2. inadequate or unconvincing; flimsy: a paper-thin excuse.

Origin of paper-thin

1
First recorded in 1925–30

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How to use paper-thin in a sentence

  • This room with paper-thin walls, sheltered perhaps twenty men, each cot jammed close to its neighbor.

    Whispering Walls | Mildred A. Wirt
  • paper-thin transparent crustaceans swam into view, followed by a few white shrimps, pale as ghosts.

  • There was no paper-thin covering on her chairs, bed, and dressing table.

    The Harvester | Gene Stratton Porter
  • None of your featherweight, gas-lightened, paper-thin alloy shells, but toughened aluminum from stern to stern.

    Friend Island | Francis Stevens
  • A clamp of artificial matter took it, and held the paper-thin sheet, many feet square, in the air.

    Invaders from the Infinite | John Wood Campbell