He had scarcely received a just trial and had been sentenced on flimsy grounds.
Now he has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a symbolic act on the basis of flimsy arguments.
The measures proposed here are somewhat flimsy, but they are nonetheless necessary and imperative.
In both gender and science studies, naturalization is ideology at full strength, hardening the flimsy conventions of culture into the immutable, inevitable, and indifferent dictates of nature.
The larvae attacked, for the most part, did not respin their cocoons after collection ; those which did spin a cocoon made only a thin, flimsy one.
At most, the retributive argument for it, which would bring enhanced sentences within the usual limiting justification for detention, is controversial and flimsy.
The ' ' commonsense ' ' of indifference turns out to be a rather flimsy foundation on which to rest powerful mathematics.
He wanted a rocking horse, because the clothes one was too flimsy.
