adv. [f. FLIMSY + -LY2.] In a flimsy manner.
1787. Minor, 159. How flimsily the contractor … had executed his plans.
a. 1797. Walpole, Mem. Geo. II. (1847), II. ii. 54. Then ensued a variety of the different manners of speaking ill. Potter flimsily; old Horace Walpole shamelessly; Dr. Hay tritely; George Townshend poorly.
1863. E. FitzGerald, Lett. (1889), I. 292. I couldn’t admire the Night-watch much: Van der Helst’s very good Picture seemed to me to have been cleaned: I thought the Rembrandt Burgomasters worth all the rest put together. But I certainly looked very flimsily at all.
1888. L. Hearn, A Midsummer Trip to the West Indies, in Harper’s Mag., LXXVII. July, 215/1. The work was done cheaply and flimsily, not massively and enduringly, as it had been done by the first builders.
