flinty
composed of, containing, or resembling flint, especially in hardness.
unyielding; unmerciful; obdurate: a flinty heart.
Origin of flinty
1Other words from flinty
- flint·i·ly, adverb
- flint·i·ness, noun
Words Nearby flinty
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How to use flinty in a sentence
Heartbreakingly, these flinty Rivian ledger-readers, upon discovering the tooling for those cars still in place, promptly scrapped it, leaving anyone fantasizing about a brand-new turbocharged, all-wheel-drive Eclipse in tears.
The Rivian R1T breaks the electric-pickup game wide open | Dan Carney | September 28, 2021 | Popular-ScienceBesides, he’s already located Rafo—and met the boy’s prize rooster, a flinty, handsome creature named Macho—and senses that the kid isn’t as tough as he thinks he is.
Cry Macho Is Pure Clint Eastwood—and That's Mostly a Good Thing | Stephanie Zacharek | September 17, 2021 | TimeEvery summer in her hometown, I’d hear and see the amazing, unrequited devotion to the Red Sox that, if requited, might upset some difficult worldview with which their fans had made a flinty Puritan peace.
After covering everything for 52 years, it’s time to see what I missed | Thomas M. Boswell | May 7, 2021 | Washington PostThe activism, even amongst the community, was difficult and flinty.
Matt Bomer Tells the Personal Story Behind His Heartbreaking ‘Normal Heart’ Performance | Kevin Fallon | May 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor Anderson, this is a role that she was born to play: uncompromising and flinty, radiating a ferocity and tough conviction.
The Haunting New Serial-Killer Thriller Heading to Netflix | Jace Lacob | May 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
For all his flinty wit and occasional impulse to antagonize, Ed Koch was, in the end, almost impossible to dislike.
“Linda McMahon is clearly not a fiscal conservative, which I am,” says Shays with flinty frustration.
Shays’s Rebellion: The Last Yankee Republican Fights For His Political Life | John Avlon | August 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe fact that she comes from flinty, northern coal-miner stock.
Louis had no sooner reached the window, than he would have thrown himself from the flinty butments upon the top of the precipice.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterAt some point near the base, when the flinty stone was speeding forward like a meteor, it abraded a harder portion than before.
Two Boys in Wyoming | Edward S. EllisHe swung along with a swaying motion, and his claws, striking the flinty rocks as he passed over them, rattled like iron nails.
Two Boys in Wyoming | Edward S. EllisWhen Hank threw down the last expiring match, he caught a glimpse of something white on the flinty floor.
Two Boys in Wyoming | Edward S. EllisHe was sitting on the flinty floor, with his back against the side of the cavern and his legs thrust out in front of him.
Two Boys in Wyoming | Edward S. Ellis
British Dictionary definitions for flinty
/ (ˈflɪntɪ) /
of, relating to, or resembling flint
hard or cruel; obdurate; unyielding
Derived forms of flinty
- flintily, adverb
- flintiness, noun
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