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flaky

[ US /ˈfɫeɪki/ ]
[ UK /flˈe‍ɪki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. made of or easily forming flakes
  2. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
    restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit
    famed for his eccentric spelling
    outre and affected stage antics
    his off-the-wall antics
    the outlandish clothes of teenagers
    a freakish combination of styles
  3. made of or resembling flakes
    flaky soap

How To Use flaky In A Sentence

  • The Scottish foursome sound nicely chilled where they used to be, for better or worse, just plain flaky.
  • He plays a flaky tourist visiting Europe.
  • The central character of the play is a flaky neurotic.
  • Among the entrées, the dosai is a large crêpe wrapped into a cone shape; lift the crêpe and there is a piece of sea bass done to flaky perfection with a swirl of light chutney.
  • Then the inevitable and auspicious slice of baklava, flaky and honeyed, which brings to mind ancient pleasures, Biblical decadence.
  • We refuse to settle for just being a nutty professor, a flaky musician, a straight-laced suit, or a thuggish musclehead, Thad barked like a rebel warrior. Sin in Soul's Kitchen
  • Now there were filets of flaky white stuff drowned in a red sauce.
  • Dip a cotton bud into a lip balm, then twizzle it along your lips to get rid of flaky bits. Times, Sunday Times
  • Q. My fingernails have become dry and flaky. The Sun
  • This morning, I went to the local bakery to buy fartons (a local pastry, sort of a long thin flaky croissant-like thing with frosting on top, meant to be dunked in horchata) but they only had one left. Breakfast in Bed
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