flimsy
Likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial.
"I've done nothing yet," he would say, "I don't think I've got any real genius. But if I keep trying I may write a good book." Fine dives have been made from flimsier spring-boards.
(thin) Of clothing: very light and thin.
(figurative) Of an argument, explanation, etc.: ill-founded, unconvincing, weak; also, unimportant; paltry, trivial.
And however flimzey this title, and those of William Rufus [William II of England] and Stephen of Blois [Stephen, King of England], may appear at this distance to us, after the law of descents hath now been settled for so many centuries, they were sufficient to puzzle the understandings of our brave, but unlettered, ancestors.
(figurative) Of a person: lacking depth of character or understanding; frivolous, superficial.
"Yes, fell woman," answered Middlemas; "but was it I who encouraged the young tyrant's outrageous passion for a portrait, or who formed the abominable plan of placing the original within his power?" / "No—for to do so required brain and wit. But it was thine, flimsy villain, to execute the device which a bolder genius planned; it was thine to entice the woman to this foreign shore, under pretence of a love, which, on thy part, cold-blooded miscreant, never had existed."
(figurative, obsolete) Of a person, their physical makeup, or their health: delicate, frail.
A thing which is ill-founded, unconvincing, or weak.
Thin typing paper used together with carbon paper in a typewriter to make multiple copies of a document; a sheet of such paper.
(by extension) A document printed or typed on such paper.
(by extension, naval slang) A service certificate.
(by extension, slang) A banknote; paper money.
(by extension, newspapers) The text to be set into pages of magazines, newspapers, etc.; copy.
(UK, military slang) A hexahedral metal container with a capacity of four imperial gallons (about 18 liters) used by the British Army during World War II to hold fuel.
To make (something) likely to be easily damaged.
(dated or historical) To type or write (text) on a sheet of thin typing paper used together with carbon paper in a typewriter to make multiple copies of a document.
(figurative) To treat (someone or something) as paltry or unimportant; to demean, to underestimate.