Among the missteps was the blatant, handcuffed arrest of three financiers in their offices on charges so flimsy they were later dropped.

In team sports, it is a flimsy charge.

The pretext was a flimsy charge of involvement in a murder, upheld by a kangaroo court of military officers.

Many black activists were goaded into conflicts with the police and framed on flimsy charges.

"It's a flimsy charge, Oren."

The Pennsylvania state police clubbed picketers, dragged strikers from their homes and jailed thousands on flimsy charges.

Arrested on any flimsy charges UET cares to make.

There is no reason to subject the country to a crippling process of an impeachment investigation on these flimsy charges.

They're arresting honest merchants on the flimsiest charges you ever heard of, and everyone from the West is followed constantly.

Homes were searched illegally, they asserted, people were arrested on flimsy charges and others were detained because of their race.