flimsy
/ˈflɪmzi/ verb C2- To make (something) likely to be easily damaged.
- To type or write (text) on a flimsy (“sheet of thin typing paper used together with carbon paper in a typewriter to make multiple copies of a document”) (noun sense 2); to distribute such flimsies.
- To treat (someone or something) as paltry or unimportant; to demean, to underestimate.
He/she/it flimsies · Past flimsied · Past participle flimsied · -ing form flimsying
Verb forms
- Base form
- flimsy
- He/she/it
- flimsies
- Past
- flimsied
- Past participle
- flimsied
- -ing form
- flimsying
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