What is "flakey"

Usage examples of "flakey".

When I checked with Dave Burgin, a former San Francisco Examiner and Washington Star-News sports editor, he said there were only two teams in the whole League flakey enough for me to identify with in any kind of personal or human way: One was Pittsburgh and the other was Oakland.

A heavy purplish vapor in the crucible condensed on the walls into black, flakey crystals.

The bell-button grills in the flakey porches look like the dashboards of ancient spaceships.

A slice of egg had been baked in the center and the flakey crust was golden brown.

A hole the breadth of her thumb flashed into existence in the steel, and there was a shower of something flakey and glittering from behind his elbow.

He had tan hair and a big, sun-reddened, flakey face, a barrel of belly, a network of smile wrinkles and weather wrinkles, big red hands like ball gloves, and eyes that seemed to have the same size and expression as a pair of blueberries.

Dick managed to get through the ill-spelled letter, and learned its instructions by heart, and then was rewarded with a home-made flakey cake, out of the big basket, that was better than all the fairings they had left behind.

It was dark in colour and flakey -- such an ash as is only made by a Trichinopoly.

Agents, therefore, are required to move swiftly, leaving vapor trails deliberately designed to appear harmlessly flakey to Behind-Time Species, while at the same time instructive to and supportive of A-Head-Time Futiques.

Emergent equipment was flakier, and since the fighting, nobody’s gear was absolutely trustable.