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adjectiveslimsy (comparative more slimsy or slimsier, superlative most slimsy or slimsiest)
comparative more slimsy · comparative slimsier · superlative most slimsy · superlative slimsiest · alternative slimpsy
- UScolloquialdatedflimsy; frail
In front of the store, and in and out of the interminable pushcarts, with their flaring oil-lamps at night illuminating a bewildering miscellany of merchandise,—everything from spoiled grapefruit to slimsy suspenders, Rosey played and fought and bit her way.
1922, Robert Gordon Anderson, The Isle of Seven Moons, Chapter 8
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