flak

IPA: fɫˈæk

noun

  • Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.
  • Anti-aircraft shell fire.
  • (figuratively, informal) Adverse criticism.
  • (informal) A public-relations spokesperson.
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Examples of "flak" in Sentences

  • Also she has taken enough flak from the bias media.
  • I've had no flak from the boobs POV because there are none to be found.
  • He will always face flak from the minority of introducing romance to Doctor Who.
  • Considering the flak from the left and right, I'd say Obama's got it just about right.
  • I will note also that she has taken some flak from the left because “too many” white males were hired.
  • So whenever you hear some label flak claiming 98% of the bands they sign lose money for the company, substitute the phrase "just don't earn enough" for the word "lose."
  • You reveal yourself fully not when times are flush — but when the flak is heavy, and these so-called tough guys couldn't break a thumbhold from a trembling Barney Fife.
  • Our second annual spring trip to the Upper Catch and Release Area of the Miller's River, my father caught this nice brown trout, and caught flak from the elitists because he was using the fly rod with a spinning reel and rooster tail and catching fish, while the elitist fly fishers were getting skunked all morning.

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