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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb flake which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

flaky
  1. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
  2. (informal, of a person) Unreliable; prone to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.
  3. (informal, of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; prone to cease functioning properly.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Consider, for instance, the iterative geometric process of creating flaky pastry dough.”
      “Aloe Vera helps in reducing redness, flaky skin, and inflammation if applied daily.”
      “Nothing worked, least of all the pressure on the general, who seemed to become ever more flaky as the crisis developed.”
flakelike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a flake.
flakey
  1. Alternative spelling of flaky
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The smooth glove looked strange against his flakey skin.”
      “The guy was a crusty, opinionated, crotchety, flakey old man, an ex-marine who seemed to care less about having me there than I did about being there.”
      “The last thing you want to be is a flakey MP who doesn't turn up to hand out 200 achievement certificates to young people on stage.”
flaking
  1. Breaking or tending to break into flakes.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The old paint on the house was flaking off, leaving patches of exposed wood.”
      “The flaking paint on the old house gave it a weathered and worn appearance.”
flakeless
  1. Without flakes.
flakier
  1. comparative form of flaky: more flaky
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I recently ordered the chicken roti, a thin wrap not dissimilar to a flour tortilla but flakier, stuffed to bursting with a spicy blend of chicken, vegetables and aromatics.”
      “At the time I was also suffering from a nasty strain of eczema which turned my skin flakier than a Cadbury chocolate bar.”
      “Panko, Japanese style breadcrumbs, available in supermarkets and delis, have a flakier consistency and the end result is crispier and crunchier.”
flakiest
  1. superlative form of flaky: most flaky
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The flakiest clients are the most apt to bail out of a project, and so are the ones for whom we most need a written termination clause in our contracts.”
      “A hearty, comfort food starter, the beef encased in the flakiest of flaky pastry, the tiny mushrooms intensely flavoured.”
      “The meat is slow roasted in a moist bitter ale and topped with the flakiest pastry, served with winter roasted vegetables.”
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