slimsy
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of slimsy
Example Sentences
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If there were sewn with these strips of light cotton stuff of equal width, the carpet would prove a poor thing, heavy in spots and slimsy in others.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse
I can’t see anything to it—for the price; it’s too slimsy.
From Mountain Blood A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph
They were none of the slimsy, composition-filled, aniline-dyed calicoes of to-day.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse
His slimsy silver spoon, dented with toothmarks of an ancestor who had died in a delirium, was laid evenly by his plate.
From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
Cradle sheets of this thin, closely woven, white worsted stuff are not slimsy like thin flannel, yet are softer than flannel.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse
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