flakiness

IPA: fɫˈækinʌs

Examples of "flakiness" in Sentences

It’s always had a certain flakiness, and I never had the patience to track it down.
Cutting stories about O'Neill's "flakiness" began to appear in the conservative press.
We worked on that together for years; that was marked by some flakiness and not much actual work getting done.
The whole affair requires a Zen master's presence of mind to achieve the ideal separation of layers - what we civilians call flakiness.
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.
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.
If I'm honest, I've already decided in favour of the former, which is much more common on this side of the Channel, and a particular buttery weakness of mine, but in a side-by-side tasting, I'm forced to admit that the crisp flakiness of Dan's recipe is a much better foil for the quiche's creamy filling.