The phrase "as a flake" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to describe someone as unreliable or inconsistent, often in a casual or informal manner.
Example: "He always cancels our plans at the last minute; I can't help but think of him as a flake."
Alternatives: "as an unreliable person" or "as someone who flakes out".
Jim Bouton, in his classic 1970 book, "Ball Four," made many references to Goossen, saying he resembled a bouncer in an English pub and describing him as a "flake".
He denounces Timothy Leary as a flake and a fake, and is perplexed when told that kids now like the word "freaky" or that he should listen to "a group called the Doors".
On Sept. 28, 2001, Ben Stiller's "Zoolander" was released, a still-underrated romp about male models, featuring Owen Wilson as a flake named Hansel and Will Ferrell as Mugatu, a clown-haired fashion designer.
He has always had a reputation as a flake: he calls everyone "babe," admits to emptying his pockets at the betting windows on his horses, and owns up to liking to celebrate late into the night.
In a highly unusual move, Mr. Davis essentially picked his own opponent by spending as much as $10 million on television commercials -- about as much as Mr. Simon and Mr. Riordan combined spent -- that depicted Mr. Riordan as a flake who shifted his positions on abortion and the death penalty.
Remnick is tantalisingly brief about this period but tells us that Obama thought of the anti-Eurocentric Palestinian professor as a "flake", and took the view that it was better to read Shakespeare in the original than to be reading the criticism.
If a person is marked as being a flake (they said they'd buy but never showed up) or as selling lemons, that rating stays with them.
It is supposed that the friction between a graphene flake and graphite was measured as the tip dragged a flake during sliding on graphite [8, 14].
The sample is inspected using optical microscopy in order to identify thin flakes (<10 nm) lying across the aluminum gate, e.g., a flake as in location (I .. Thin flakes were found to exhibit a characteristic yellowish color on the gate region (Al2O3/Al) with a strong contrast to thicker flakes of ~15 25 nm, which appear distinctly blue-colored (cf. locations (II).
It is quite interesting to mention that the shape of the particles was spheroid and did not look like a flake as it is shown in the Fig. 3.
Thinking about the causes of flakiness would make Jennifer Munoz "more flaky". The 24-year-old Las Vegas receptionist half-jokingly defines a flake as "someone like me..
