Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being flaky.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being flaky.
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- noun The characteristic or quality of being
flaky
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun having or breaking into thin crisp flakes
- noun informal terms for insanity
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Examples
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It’s always had a certain flakiness, and I never had the patience to track it down.
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The whole affair requires a Zen master's presence of mind to achieve the ideal separation of layers - what we civilians call flakiness.
The Seattle Times 2011
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If anybody ever asked us we Black Americans always have known about and felt the stab from the "'flakiness' factor" of our white kin/fellow US citizens.
Bandung+50 Marian 2008
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If anybody ever asked us we Black Americans always have known about and felt the stab from the "'flakiness' factor" of our white kin/fellow US citizens.
Black philanthropy Marian 2008
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If anybody ever asked us we Black Americans always have known about and felt the stab from the "'flakiness' factor" of our white kin/fellow US citizens.
HBCUs Marian 2008
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Cutting stories about O'Neill's "flakiness" began to appear in the conservative press.
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If anybody ever asked us we Black Americans always have known about and felt the stab from the "'flakiness' factor" of our white kin/fellow US citizens.
Boomers! Marian 2007
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We worked on that together for years; that was marked by some flakiness and not much actual work getting done.
Monday theferrett 2009
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Since it is all fat, it usually produces the most tender and crumbly results in a cake, cookie or pie crust, but it does not have the flavor of butter, nor can it impart the flakiness that butter can give to, for instance, a pie crust.
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If I'm honest, I've already decided in favour of the former, which is much more common on this side of the Channel, and a particular buttery weakness of mine, but in a side-by-side tasting, I'm forced to admit that the crisp flakiness of Dan's recipe is a much better foil for the quiche's creamy filling.
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