Definitions for flinty

flinty flint·y

Spelling: [flin-tee]
IPA: /ˈflɪn ti/

Flinty is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in flinty (filnty).

Definitions for flinty

adjective

  1. composed of, containing, or resembling flint, especially in hardness.
  2. unyielding; unmerciful; obdurate:

Origin of flinty

First recorded in 1530-40; flint + -y1

Examples for flinty

For Anderson, this is a role that she was born to play: uncompromising and flinty, radiating a ferocity and tough conviction.

“Linda McMahon is clearly not a fiscal conservative, which I am,” says Shays with flinty frustration.

“Under the heart of the flinty hill lies the coal,” he said simply.

The fact that she comes from flinty, northern coal-miner stock.

Others go in, but I beat against its flinty portals with hands that bleed.

The activism, even amongst the community, was difficult and flinty.

But she met the eyes looking into hers with a flinty resistance.

Had the flinty and inexorable Robespierre turned fainthearted at last?

Closer and closer he shrinks to the rock, as if to bury himself in its flinty surface.

For all his flinty wit and occasional impulse to antagonize, Ed Koch was, in the end, almost impossible to dislike.

Word Value for flinty
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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