slimsy
adjective
flimsy; frail.
slimpsy
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a variation of
slimsy.
Example Sentences
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She was one of those slimpsy, thin women that a man would be afraid to hug for fear she'd crack in his arms or snap in the middle.
From Miss Maitland Private Secretary by Geraldine Bonner
It's a slimpsy place to shut a prisoner up in and I should be afraid to trust it, if it were not for the dogs.
From Rodney The Partisan by Harry Castlemon
Bitterness came back to her as she entered the hotel and her slimpsy little cloth gown must brush the Parisian skirts of the richly clad other women.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
She was a meek, slimpsy little thing, with big, hungry lookin' eyes, and a double hank of cinnamon coloured hair that I should have thought would have made her neck ache to carry around.
From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford
Lovely young girls cried over their ball-dresses of illusion, and wondered if their hopes would thin off into the same slimpsy nothingness.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
