Definition of Flintiest

1. Adjective. (superlative of flinty) ¹

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Definition of Flintiest

1. flinty [adj] - See also: flinty

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flintiest

flingers
flinging
flings
flinkite
flinkites
flint
flint-hearted
flint corn
flint disease
flint maize
flinted
flinthead
flintheads
flintier
flintiest (current term)
flintify
flintily
flintiness
flintinesses
flinting
flintings
flintlike
flintlock
flintlocks
flints
flintstone
flintstones
flintware
flintwood

Literary usage of Flintiest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1829)
"He delights to gladden life ; to throw sunshine on its dreariest wastes, and strew its flintiest paths with flowers. SUNRISE. Look on the sky ! look while ..."

2. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1867)
"... coldest, and flintiest side of the human heart, and would wring righteousness from the unfeeling calculations of human selfishness. ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Rough are the steps, slow-hewn in flintiest rock, States climb to power by; slippery those with gold Down which they stumble to eternal mock: No ..."

4. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape by Frederick Douglass (2001)
"Born and reared among the lowly, a stranger to wealth and luxury, compelled to grapple single- handed with the flintiest hardships of life, ..."

5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"We ourselves have known the flintiest men, who professed to have wept over them, for the first time in their lives. So was it twenty years ago; ..."

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