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flintily
adverb
uk /ˈflɪn.təl.i/ us /ˈflɪn.t̬əl.i/
in a serious and determined way:
His eyes were suddenly cold and hard. "I'm going to make you pay," he told her flintily.
Oscar laughed in a cold way and regarded her flintily as she spoke.
"The thing is", she added flintily, "I don't talk about my private life".
He flintily defends the army's use of force against the rioters.
He studied at St Andrews, a place his family believed to be flintily Scottish.
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