Flinty

(adj.) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; 'his flinty gaze'; 'the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart' .

(adj.) containing flint .

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• Yet, human fellowship infused some nourishment into the flinty viands, and struck some sparks of cheerfulness out of them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Then the two got mixed up in a man's mind with a flinty old rascal who had to do with both. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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