flinty
adjective, flint·i·er, flint·i·est.
Origin of flinty
Related Words for flinty
stony, steely, cruel, firm, hard, inflexible, rigid, unsympathetic, unyieldingExamples from the Web for flinty
Contemporary Examples of flinty
The activism, even amongst the community, was difficult and flinty.
Matt Bomer Tells the Personal Story Behind His Heartbreaking ‘Normal Heart’ PerformanceKevin Fallon
May 21, 2014
For Anderson, this is a role that she was born to play: uncompromising and flinty, radiating a ferocity and tough conviction.
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 LifeJohn Avlon
August 13, 2012
The fact that she comes from flinty, northern coal-miner stock.
Historical Examples of flinty
Others go in, but I beat against its flinty portals with hands that bleed.
The Trail of '98Robert W. Service
“Under the heart of the flinty hill lies the coal,” he said simply.
The Bishop of CottontownJohn Trotwood Moore
Closer and closer he shrinks to the rock, as if to bury himself in its flinty surface.
Adrift in the WildsEdward S. Ellis
Had the flinty and inexorable Robespierre turned fainthearted at last?
Which?Ernest Daudet
But she met the eyes looking into hers with a flinty resistance.
Seven Miles to ArdenRuth Sawyer