Definitions for flimsies

flimsies flim·sy

Spelling: [flim-zee]
IPA: /ˈflɪm zi/

Flimsies is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 149 anagrams from letters in flimsies (efiilmss).

Definitions for flimsies

noun

  1. a thin kind of paper, especially for use in making several copies at a time of an article, telegraphic dispatch, or the like, as in newspaper work.
  2. a copy of a report or dispatch on such paper.

adjective

  1. without material strength or solidity:
  2. weak; inadequate; not effective or convincing:

Origin of flimsies

1695-1705; flim- (perhaps metathetic variant of film) + -sy

Examples for flimsies

On the last Sunday in March, Marina is hanging diapers on a flimsy clothesline stuck in the grass in the small backyard.

But the folding of the flimsy batch on his knee was executed with thoughtful nicety.

It seemed a flimsy structure, supported only by tubular steel.

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.

He passed through, and the flimsy covering fell to behind him.

How eagerly we accept the argument, flimsy as it may be, which accords with our wishes!

When it comes to invading foreign countries on false or flimsy pretexts, the Russians have lots of company.

Their statements were flimsy, and guilt was plainly written on their faces.

Then she disappeared, leaving me by myself in that flimsy little dress, my makeup smudged and my hair all over the place.

Word Value for flimsies
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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