But that's a flimsy reason to obstruct a test that holds so much promise for the general public.

"Mere intuition is a flimsy reason for you to ask me to violate my ethics."

"That still seems a flimsy reason for trying to kill her."

Rather than stay home, many teams produced flimsy reasons for not playing at the key moment.

That seems like a flimsy reason for pushing a free agent who doesn't want to be pushed.

"A flimsy reason, if you want to be allowed to do the things that the boys are," Cassandra reminded her.

We try to find even the flimsiest reason not to clear him.

Military strategists and revolutionaries, on the other hand, may have flimsier reasons for watching the film.

For such flimsy reasons did a man choose his fate.

Heads of state have been chosen for flimsier reasons.