Definition of Flimsier

1. Adjective. (comparative of flimsy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flimsier

1. flimsy [adj] - See also: flimsy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flimsier

flim
flim-flam
flimflam
flimflammed
flimflammer
flimflammeries
flimflammers
flimflammery
flimflamming
flimflams
flimp
flimped
flimping
flimps
flims
flimsier (current term)
flimsies
flimsiest
flimsily
flimsiness
flimsinesses
flimsy
flinch
flinched
flincher
flinchers
flinches
flinching
flinchingly
flincht

Literary usage of Flimsier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Things Men Fight for: With Some Application to Present Conditions in Europe by Harry Huntington Powers (1916)
"The fabric of the Turkish Empire looked imposing, but it had been built with flimsier and flimsier workmanship as time went on. The Balkan kingdoms had been ..."

2. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"So he cut into his wife's stateroom from above with an axe; she was asleep in the upper berth, the roof a flimsier one than was supposed; the first blow ..."

3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"Here were deeper reasons than the superficial talk of a new man, which appeared still flimsier in the drawing-room over the shop, when they were recited to ..."

4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
""Much more alarming," he admits, "is the comment that England's popular periodicals are flimsier than their counterparts in America. ..."

5. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1903)
"So he cut into his wife's stateroom from above with an axe; she was asleep in the upper berth, the roof a flimsier one than was supposed; the first blow ..."

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