paper-thin
extremely thin: a paper-thin razor blade.
inadequate or unconvincing; flimsy: a paper-thin excuse.
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How to use paper-thin in a sentence
For someone interested in upending how Americans perceive free speech, Rosenbaum presents a series of paper-thin arguments.
“Her support is broader than I would like, but it's paper-thin,” Shays says.
Shays’s Rebellion: The Last Yankee Republican Fights For His Political Life | John Avlon | August 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe chest protector was paper-thin with the faded mark of “Spalding” in the top left hand corner.
The walls were paper-thin, and he could hear all comings-and-goings at his end of the flophouse.
Clegg won the leadership by a paper-thin majority in late 2007.
This room with paper-thin walls, sheltered perhaps twenty men, each cot jammed close to its neighbor.
Whispering Walls | Mildred A. Wirtpaper-thin transparent crustaceans swam into view, followed by a few white shrimps, pale as ghosts.
Astounding Stories, August, 1931 | VariousThere was no paper-thin covering on her chairs, bed, and dressing table.
The Harvester | Gene Stratton PorterNone of your featherweight, gas-lightened, paper-thin alloy shells, but toughened aluminum from stern to stern.
Friend Island | Francis StevensA 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
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