[
UK
/flˈeɪkɪnəs/
]
NOUN
- having or breaking into thin crisp flakes
- informal terms for insanity
How To Use flakiness In A Sentence
- 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
- The crust on a petite open-faced sour lemon tart lacks flakiness; a standard tall chocolate mousse cake wears a white chocolate garnish that hints of too much time spent in the refrigerator.
- 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
- 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. What is shortening? | Baking Bites
- The flakiness, for what it's worth, is a far better option than having another hard-ass female in Hollywood.
- It just demonstrates the flakiness of educating a robot through nothing but vapid yoof-chat. Times, Sunday Times
- It’s always had a certain flakiness, and I never had the patience to track it down. Scripting News for 5/26/2008 « Scripting News Annex
- Give yourself a moisturizing or exfoliating mask to help skin recover from flakiness and to wake up a dull complexion.
- It refers to increasing amounts of flakiness on the scalp.
- Another similar problem was caused by the flakiness of the Hard Drive.