English-French translations for flimsy

• fragile
  Si tel est le cas, cet accord est très fragile en l’état. This may be so, but it is extremely flimsy at present.
  Beaucoup d'entre elles arrivent dans des embarcations fragiles, et plusieurs milliers d'Africains se noient sans que personne ne proteste. Many of them are arriving in flimsy craft, and several thousand Africans are drowning without anyone protesting.
  Néanmoins, la seule base juridique dont elle dispose pour l'heure est un fragile assemblage de communiqués de presse et de résolutions du Conseil. But the only legal base it has at the moment is a flimsy cat's cradle of communiqués, of press releases, of resolutions in Council.
• frêle

Definition of flimsy

• Likely to bend or break under pressure
• Weak; ill-founded
• Thin typing paper used to make multiple copies
• A service certificate
• Skimpy underwear
• A banknote

Examples

• He expected the flimsy structure to collapse at any moment
• a flimsy excuse

Related words

• flight
• conflict
• flint
• flintstone
• flirt
• flickering
• flip
• flit
• fling
• flip-flop