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flintiness

  • a word derived from flinty.
    flinty
    adjective
    composed of, containing, or resembling flint, especially in hardness.

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For all of her storied flintiness, Lane strains to keep her feelings about Gala at a distance, and Gala refuses to acknowledge that she needs Lane to anchor her recklessness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025

She also learned deeply from her bittersweet amalgam of vulnerability and flintiness.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2024

Nor is it the state Legislature, where sharp elbows might be perceived as get-the-job-done flintiness.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

When Harper's flintiness bumps against Daphne's irrepressible sunny nature she looks, by intention, less magnetic.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2022

It had no bitterness, no flintiness, no damaged grain in it; but all were plump and ripe, as if they had been picked.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds