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词汇 flinty
释义 flinty
adjective
uk /ˈflɪn.ti/ us /ˈflɪn.t̬i/
made of or like flint: 燧石的;燧石构成的;似燧石的
a flinty material燧石材料
severe and determined: 强硬的;坚定不移的;冷峻的
He looked at me with flinty eyes.他目光冷峻地看着我。
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Examples of flinty


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I thought that he had a flinty tone about him tonight.
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I have been in a crowd dozens of times with the object of compelling some mean, flinty-hearted individual shopkeeper to close his shop.
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I hope that we are not going to look on them as flinty-hearted landlords.
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The airline has a flinty eye on commercial advantage.
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Known for his distinctive accent and flinty voice, he often played devious authority figures.
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The underlying bedrock of the hills is a flinty limestone.
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His early voice was described as flinty and tender, beseeching and plaintive.
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Small areas in the north of the commune are composed of flinty clay and quartz shingle.
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His flinty, metallic landscapes and somewhat stony figures give evidence of a fundamentally sculptural approach to painting.
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The flinty sparkle of the stars in the desert sky seemed to accentuate the vast blackness, reminding him that night operations were always scary.
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He had heard it that in the flinty eyes of owners, reporters were easy to find and a dime a dozen.
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Ultramylonite is often hard, dark, cherty to flinty in appearance and sometimes resemble pseudotachylite and obsidian.
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Another shaft started in a westerly direction, but this coal was flinty, or mixed with rock, and digging was discontinued.
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However, both wines have naturally high acidity and the potential to exhibit the minerally, flinty notes described as "pierre fusil" or gunflint, as well as citrus and spicy notes.
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Oh, my sweet vile, kind, flinty, mild, uncharitable master!
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