Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Sparkling; glittery.
- adjective Cheap and flashy.
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- adjective Tending to
glint .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A charmer with glinty umber eyes and a disarming crescent grin, his acceptance was doled out in niblets, treats passed to dogs standing stiff before the judges, trained to gladly suffer the verbal public flayings endured in between.
1997: What I Wanted Thomas Pluck 2011
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She's tiny and glinty eyed and if I could flip my sexual predisposition on a dime, I'd be totally in love with her.
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She's tiny and glinty eyed and if I could flip my sexual predisposition on a dime, I'd be totally in love with her.
blog: February 2009 2009
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Here's one to ponder, all those out there who will always condemn Israel with a glinty unforgiving gaze, yet eyes wide shut when muslims are the bang to rights perps.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Which caused MSNBC's Keith Olbermann to go into an eleven-minute, high dudgeon rant addressed directly to Cheney, with a lot of "You sirs" and squinty, glinty eyeballing.
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But through it all, the only Apples we've had to sell are the glinty, erotic packages out of Cupertino, which we peddle on eBay's secondary market to make way for the next wonderment.
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I like to think that the odd grey hairs I notice in the mirror are really, really pale and glinty brown, like the rest of my head.
Ten Things Tuesday « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2007
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I like to think that the odd grey hairs I notice in the mirror are really, really pale and glinty brown, like the rest of my head.
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Michael has turned into the cigarette Gollum, having weird glinty obsessive surges every time someone brings up any mention of smoking.
Celebrity Big Brother Betting Odds – Is Chantelle Safe? 2006
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One of these days, you'll see me on the news, wandering around downtown Baghdad with a dazed, desperate look in my glinty eyes as I stumble down the streets stopping the passing terrorists as they prepare for a fun-filled day of setting off improvised explosive devices.
bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2005
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