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Stern and unyielding
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flinty
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flinty \Flint"y\, a. [Compar. Flintier ; superl. Flintiest .] Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart. Flinty rock , or Flinty state , a siliceous slate; -- basanite is here included. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Resembling or containing flint. 2 siliceous (including basanite) 3 Showing a lack of emotion. 4 Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "hard-hearted;" 1540s, "hard, impenetrable as flint," from flint + -y (2). Literal sense of "resembling flint" is from 1640s. Related: Flintily ; flintiness .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And-guess what-his flinty heart is melted. ▪ And there is clearly a less flinty side to him. ▪ But Avon folks possessed a flinty independence and pride. ▪ He walked on across the flinty turf, with the mare's nose at his ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" [syn: obdurate , stony ] having austere inflexibility; "a flinty manner"; "granitic morality"; "his unyielding mouth and glassy eyes"- Marchette ...
Usage examples of flinty.
Their hobnailed boots clattered against the flinty stones of the roadway.
The Moms is in the backyard garden, tilling the infamously flinty New England soil with a rented Rototiller.
Primero Meach lowered his voice, swept his flinty gaze across his comrades.
With a little oatmeal for food, and a little sulphur for friction, allaying cutaneous irritation with the one hand, and holding his Calvinistical creed in the other, Sawney ran away to his flinty hills, sung his psalm out of tune his own way, and listened to his sermon of two hours long, amid the rough and imposing melancholy of the tallest thistles.
Warrior spun, his eyes becoming flinty at the sight of the ring of Technic troopers surrounding him.
She turned up by the dark flinty walls of Cork Gaol, and up onto the Blarney Road.
He had a lot of long black hair, a drooping pistolero mustache, rubbery brown jowls, flinty little eyes deep-set under thick black brows, buffalo shoulders, a lacy white guayabera stretched taut across chest and stomach, a lot of dangling gold trinkets on a thick gold chain nested in the black chest hair, and a sharp tang of some kind of insistent male perfume.
Angelo Maggio smiled at him grimly out of the flinty battered new face that never failed to surprise Prew each new time he saw it.
He could not breathe, could not seak, but only hug the flinty soil, pain-white and clammy with weakness.
The delectable delight awakened by her soft flesh stroking across the flinty hard shaft made her shiver with renewed desire.
Then, the broken flanks of Sango Lobango himself a chaos of pits and flinty needles, craters and caverns, hot streams and cold, all jungle clotted, as if in a stupendous hot-house, almost on up to the point where the snows began.
There were no springs, and the crust of topsoil was so thin that the flinty bones stuck through.
The ground was tussocky with the poor grass, flinty stones unsettling his footsteps.
I looked up to find Cecilia Boden staring at me with a flinty expression.
There were forty or fifty like him in this work crew, digging with antlike tenacityand antlike resultsinto the flinty, frozen ground.