slimsy

Definitions

Examples

• Hissing arcs up under that slimsy roof throw high lights and deep shadows here and there and everywhere.

• They were none of the slimsy, composition-filled, aniline-dyed calicoes of to-day.

• Cradle sheets of this thin, closely woven, white worsted stuff are not slimsy like thin flannel, yet are softer than flannel.

• His slimsy silver spoon, dented with toothmarks of an ancestor who had died in a delirium, was laid evenly by his plate.