Sentence examples for flack from inspiring English sources
The word "flack" is correct and usable in written English
It is most commonly used as a noun meaning a public relations or publicity agent, especially one who deals with difficult or negative situations. Example: "The company's flack did an impressive job at managing the media's backlash to their recent product recall." Other possible uses of the word "flack" include: - as a verb, meaning to promote or publicize a person or product (e.g. "The celebrity's PR team flacked their new movie relentlessly before its release.") - as a slang term, meaning criticism or opposition (e.g. "He's been catching a lot of flack for his controversial statements.") - as a term for anti-aircraft artillery (this use is less common and mostly found in military contexts)
noun
A publicist, a publicity agent.
Mr Galloway's post this morning, though, tells a different and much subtler story: Ms Handel was already trending upward, so Ms Palin did not change the game so much as she "lit the afterburners", as Ms Handel's flack said.
What my hapless flack did, by contrast, is the equivalent of approaching me with "It would be really great if somehow tonight ends in sex!" Ugh.
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"He doesn't do interviews with lifestyle magazines because they tend to ask lifestyle questions," a flack told Michael Kelly of GQ magazine in 1990.
And so Mr Gingrich's flack announced that they were going to be "focusing exclusively on what it'll take to win what we're going to be calling a big-choice convention in August".
They're praised for the way they were able to flack with conviction to be evasive without actually sounding evasive.
That was a flack for Yale, but other Ivy League colleges with the partial exception of Princeton were equally reluctant to discuss their grading practices with The Economist.Are they trying to hide something?
This is only a little less clumsy than 1) above.3) "Dear Ms. Lastname"The flack is supposed to flatter the hack: as such a distinguished journalist, you will surely be interested in… the problem is that anyone who knows my name can Google it and, in 0.49 seconds (not including typing time), discover that I am a Mr, not a Ms.4) The completely inappropriate pitchThe most common sin.
Although Mr Clapper will help the working group, said a flack, the president will decide who sits on the panel and what its aim will be.Mr Obama announced a few other reforms on August 9th, all of them designed to allay concerns about the NSA's snooping.
Buy us a drink first.Here are some other things, in the spirit of better hack-flack communication, that public-relations folks get wrong when reaching out to journalists.
He thanked the X Factor host, Dermot O'Leary, and Caroline Flack, the presenter of its ITV2 spin-off show The Xtra Factor, before appearing briefly to forget the name of the show's new co-host, Matt Richardson.
