flinty

Example Sentences

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Mainers like to say theirs is a flinty spirit, born of enduring harsh winters and an equally harsh economy.

From New York Times

Or consider New Hampshire, whose flinty voters pride themselves on being less partisan than the average bear.

From New York Times

Even so, Mr. Bengston, a flinty contrarian with the soul of a prankster, never allowed himself to be pinned down by any particular style or movement.

From New York Times

High and flinty, with a bone-deep coal-country drawl that refused to fade even as she ascended to a queenly position in the Nashville star system, her singing sliced through polished arrangements like a sharpened blade.

From Los Angeles Times

Thatcher, by the time she became Prime Minister in 1979, had become known for a flinty disdain of what she referred to as “women’s lib.”

From New York Times