Synonyms for flint
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1. flintnoun

   a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony

   Antonyms:
   softhearted, soft-boiled

2. Flint, Flint Rivernoun

   a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

   Antonyms:
   softhearted, soft-boiled

3. Flintadjective

   a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing

   Antonyms:
   softhearted, soft-boiled

4. flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stonyadjective

   showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

   "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"

   Synonyms:
   rocklike, rocky, unrepentant, stony, flinty, granitelike, granitic, bouldered, obdurate, cussed, obstinate, bouldery

   Antonyms:
   soft-boiled, softhearted

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1. • Georgia
   • River
   • Silica

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1. List of paraphrases for "flint":

   glassy, vitreous

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1. flint

   Synonyms:
   Silica, see there
   

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1. Attorney General Bill Schuette:

   Many things went tragically wrong in Flint, and both criminal conduct and civil conduct caused harm to the families of Flint and to the taxpayers of Michigan, in Flint, Veolia and LAN were hired to do a job and failed miserably. Their fraudulent and dangerous recommendations made a bad situation worse.

2. Anna Heaton:

   The Flint City Council originally voted to move away from Detroit Water and Sewerage Department in large part because water rates for residents were unaffordable. Therefore the data in the report is not surprising.

3. Mayor Karen Weaver:

   The credits are coming, flint residents need and deserve this relief. I've said from day one, Flint residents should not have to pay for water they cannot and are not using.

4. Marianne Williamson:

   Flint is just the tip of the iceberg.

5. Flint Mayor Karen Weaver:

   We're still determined to get the lead out of Flint.