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flimsy: having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; lacking solidity or strength and liable to break; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past"; resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"; very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"

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friable collapse: (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency; "light sandy soil"; easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder; "friable sandstone"; "friable carcinomatous tissue"; "friable curds formed in the stomach"

fissile collapse: capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood"

scissile collapse

thinned collapse

stationery collapse: paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes

ramshackle collapse

jerry built collapse

flaccid collapse: drooping without elasticity; wanting in stiffness; "a flaccid penis"; lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know" G.K.Chesterton; "a slack grip"

unsustained collapse

frangible collapse: capable of being broken; "the museum stored all frangible articles in locked showcases"

breakable collapse: an article that is fragile and easily broken; "pack the breakables separately"; capable of being broken or damaged; "earthenware pottery is breakable"; "breakable articles should be packed carefully"

unconvincing collapse: not convincing; "unconvincing excuses"; "as unconvincing as a forced smile"

improbable collapse: too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story"; not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred; "legislation on the question is highly unlikely"; "an improbable event"; having a probability too low to inspire belief

crumbly collapse: apt to break into small fragments or disintegrate; "crumbly cookies"

implausible collapse: having a quality that provokes disbelief; "gave the teacher an implausible excuse"

svelte collapse

unbelievable collapse

floppy collapse: hanging limply; "a spaniel with floppy ears"

groundless collapse

vulnerable collapse: capable of being wounded or hurt; "vulnerable parts of the body"; susceptible to criticism or persuasion or temptation; "vulnerable to bribery"; "an argument vulnerable to refutation"; susceptible to attack; "a vulnerable bridge"

adulterated collapse

womanish collapse: having characteristics associated with women and considered undesirable in men; "womanish tears"

effeminate collapse: having unsuitable feminine qualities

nugatory collapse: of no real value; "a nugatory law"

insecure collapse: lacking self-confidence or assurance; "an insecure person lacking mental stability"; lacking in security or safety; "his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future"; not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way; "the hinge is insecure"; not safe from attack

nonfiction collapse: prose writing that is not fictional

gaseous collapse: existing as or having characteristics of a gas; "steam is water is the gaseous state"

sylphlike collapse

inconclusive collapse: not conclusive; not putting an end to doubt or question; "an inconclusive reply"; "inconclusive evidence"; "the inconclusive committee vote"; leading to no final results or outcome; "an inconclusive experiment"

wiredrawn collapse

fine drawn collapse

flabby collapse

sleazy collapse: of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy lining"

finespun collapse: developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions"; developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety; "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense"

boyish collapse: befitting or characteristic of a young boy; "a boyish grin"; "schoolboyish pranks"

otiose collapse: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"

printed matter collapse

reading matter collapse

wasp waisted collapse

typescript collapse: typewritten matter especially a typewritten copy of a manuscript

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