Flimsier

The government’s gas-mileage standards have been claimed to cause an additional 5000 deaths a year because they lead to people driving more miles in flimsier cars. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Still, Giuliani has the most-committed voters, while McCain's support is "flimsier," Brown suggests, pointing out that only 42 percent of his voters saying they're a firm commitment. ❋ Sinfonian (2008)

Cameron's amendment would render the proposed backbench business committee "flimsier" than it otherwise could be, he added. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For the mortgage securities sold to private investors, estimates have proven even flimsier: ❋ David Benoit (2011)

Had I been carrying a copy of a flimsier music magazine instead, it might be a different story. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Other people may have flimsier standards to convince them of this without ‘hating’ or being ‘utterly intolerant’ of gays in anyway. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The current case is even flimsier than the last one. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Supporting information on the subsequent bailout of Citigroup just a few weeks later was even flimsier. ❋ Unknown (2011)

While the disaster has destroyed the homes of rich and poor alike, the deaths are overwhelmingly seen in humbler areas, where homes are flimsier, most lacking foundations, and located in steep areas known to be at high risk of mudslides. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The excuse has never been flimsier than it is in the post-Bill Clinton era. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The theater at Universal Citywalk uses prepackaged glasses that are flimsier in construction. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was a departure from the flimsier surgical masks protesters had worn in the uprising that led to President Hosni Mubarak's ouster in February. ❋ Matt Bradley (2011)

The DMCA has been upheld many times under far flimsier reasoning. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Few of the anti-war movement care to recall that the Kosovan War was, if anything, predicated upon a flimsier legal case than the Iraqi intervention. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But Goldberg's reporting also reveals that the case for attacking Iran -- especially for America to attack so Israel won't -- is even flimsier than the case Goldberg helped make for invading Iraq in 2002, in a New Yorker article alleging that "the relationship between Saddam's regime and Al Qaeda is far closer than previously thought." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Books and essays are ostentatiously footnoted; but the references typically link back to even more obscure conspiracy publications with even flimsier evidence -- or else to other works written by the same author, in a self-reinforcing loop. ❋ Unknown (2010)