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Six example sentences with flimsy, each labelled with its topic.
The alibi was flimsy: one receipt from a station forty miles away, timestamped an hour after the shop closed.
Law
The evidence for the claim was flimsy, resting on nine samples from one pond during a single unusually warm week.
Science
The committee rejected the department's flimsy explanation for the missing invoices and scheduled a second hearing for March.
Politics
The argument for free will offered in the essay was flimsy, resting on how choices feel from the inside.
Philosophy
The justification for the fee was flimsy, a single line about administration that no one could explain.
Finance
His excuse for missing practice was flimsy, and the coach benched him for the first quarter of the next game.
Basketball
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