Example Sentences

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“Mother of God,” says Maggie Smith flintily, when her character is confronted with something of which she disapproves — which is most things — in Irish director Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s blandly buttery “The Miracle Club.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2023

One pagan eyewitness, Eunapius, remarked flintily that the only ancient treasure left unlooted from the temple was its floor.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2018

That view is echoed by Mr Scott, the first black Republican to be elected to Congress from South Carolina since 1897, who combines a flintily conservative record with a gentle, genial manner.

From Economist • Nov. 19, 2015

Few people could like Barnes, but there was something admirable about his independence, even at its most flintily messianic.

From Time Magazine Archive

I stare flintily at the guard shack, willing a boat to appear.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir