flair
smartness of style, manner, etc.: Their window display has absolutely no flair at all.
keen, intuitive perception or discernment: We want a casting director with a real flair for finding dramatic talent.
Hunting. scent; sense of smell.
Origin of flair
1Other words for flair
Words that may be confused with flair
- flair , flare
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How to use flair in a sentence
Others have studied and written about 20th-century American music with punch and flair, but nobody has done it like Peter Guralnick.
He’s reported on music’s legends. Now Peter Guralnick is letting himself slip into the story. | Geoff Edgers | November 29, 2020 | Washington PostBoth systems add a little bit of visual flair when you look at them from an angle.
Xbox Series X/S vs. PlayStation 5: Our launch-month verdict | Ars Staff | November 22, 2020 | Ars TechnicaCombined with Carlino’s knack for bringing flair to middle America, Penn National became an enormously successful company.
Valuation: Casino stocks got clobbered by COVID-19. This one is now an attractive bet | matthewheimer | October 18, 2020 | FortuneSignature cocktails are part of a restaurant or bar’s personality and flair.
Liam Hemsworth plays the rugby star who helps Tilly figure out the family secret and Hugo Weaving plays a cross-dressing police sergeant with a flair for couture.
FROM THE VAULTS – Straight, but not narrow | Brian T. Carney | September 11, 2020 | Washington Blade
To add to the conspiratorial flair, they added that the DA told them not to talk to the FBI or the CIA either.
“They are motivated by insecurity, fear, lack of imagination and above all, a lack of flair,” he said.
Mike Leigh Is the Master Filmmaker Who Hates Hollywood | Nico Hines | October 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSo far Murdoch has not shown the same flair in his digital enterprises as he has with print.
Murdoch on the Rocks: How a Lone Reporter Revealed the Mogul's Tabloid Terror Machine | Clive Irving | August 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTranscendence, starring Johnny Depp, is the latest in a series of Hollywood films with what you might call a transhumanist flair.
On Transhumanism and Why Technology Is Our Silicon Nervous System | Jason Silva | April 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe does not shy from a fight, and she has a flair for political theater to make Ted Cruz envious.
Ayant flair, il distingue hardiment entre un opportuniste et un radical.
Instigations | Ezra PoundIt is here that the teaching of the critic comes in, with the flair of the actor-manager.
The English Stage | Augustin FilonAnd she had by now developed a kind of flair in the woods, which was the astonishment of Captain Dell, himself no mean forester.
Elizabeth's Campaign | Mrs. Humphrey WardHer tact, her diplomacies, her flair for engrafting herself, would be the very best support to his direct methods of assault.
The Readjustment | Will IrwinMrs. Forrester had a flair for genius and needed no popular accrediting to make it manifest to her.
Tante | Anne Douglas Sedgwick
British Dictionary definitions for flair (1 of 2)
/ (flɛə) /
natural ability; talent; aptitude
instinctive discernment; perceptiveness
stylishness or elegance; dash: to dress with flair
hunting rare
the scent left by quarry
the sense of smell of a hound
Origin of flair
1British Dictionary definitions for flair (2 of 2)
/ (flIr) /
a Scot word for floor
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