NOUN
- a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly
ADJECTIVE
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very small
the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy
diminutive in stature
her petite figure
tiny feet
a lilliputian chest of drawers
How To Use flyspeck In A Sentence
- Why are they concerned with a little, flyspeck football team?
- It's clear from flyspecks and other physical evidence that the mummies were kept above ground for months or years before burial.
- She turns to the flyspecked oval mirror, tilted against the wall.
- With the dispatch of a waiter flicking away flyspecks, the editor, Angus Stevenson, eliminated some 16,000 hyphens from the sixth edition, published last month. Where Did All the Hyphens Go?
- From now until 2012, he'll be flyspecked for every interaction with a special interest, lobbyist, wealthy individual, or Republican. The What and How of Obama
- Then, a few months later on the site of several former horrid flyspecked delis that failed opens a Mariachi, a Mexican place. From Hillbilly Highway to Gourmet Row
- We got two flyspecked rooms with rattling fans and met Angel and Ruben for dinner at a pub on the front street. Kook
- It's all there: the dust, the cattle, the brush, the waitress in the coffee shop with the flyspecked windows.
- Literary controversy has always tended toward the flyspecked.
- Carol, looking through the flyspecked windows of the hotel, sees only rickety chairs and cuspidors, but Bea thrills to "the swell traveling man" she spies there, to the "lovely marble" soda fountain, and to all the stores — "one just for tobacco alone. Sheer Data