Flack in a sentence as a noun

The first commenter was called out as a Msft PR flack.

These guys have gotten a lot of flack they don't deserve.

I'm probably going to take some flack for this, but I don't trust Tor.

Not some PR flack, or some customer service rep.

This post is getting a lot of flack from people who haven't given it more than a glance.-------Benefits1.

" Depending on the IRS agent assigned to you, you might get flack for this as well.

This is going on like a broken record; No flack to the author, he got all rights to have his grievances.

I get pretty tired of writing a bunch of open-source C# code and getting flack for it. I'm glad there's finally no foothold left for the Mono FUD crowd.

For example, he took a lot of flack here for defending Apple's move to leave flash out of mobile safari.

I've caught some flack on HN here recently for saying it's past time to move beyond C, but this is a great example from the real world.

It's an alternative compensation scheme for a PR flack who masquerades as a journalist.

I love that this is the top story on HN. I only wish that PG got as much flack for his startup economics hype piece[1] and proposition to compress a lifetime's worth of work effort into four years.

If you want to stop taking flack on HN, you should stop attacking the credibility of whistleblowers on the rhetorical basis that you know more about what the NSA is doing than the NSA does.

That changed only because some very courageous people stuck their neck out, weathered all the flack and negative personal repercussions towards themselves, and gradually made the point of "Why not?

I was the token conservative on a lot of issues in grad school and I never got flack for saying my opinion on gender or race or economic issues as an Asian male from a privileged background.

All I see from him is somebody that installs a really smart person in some new vertical that Microsoft all of a sudden deems super important only to let this person take the flack for things not going properly a couple of years after they start.

[Worse, with Mir, they seem to going for the lockin effect: "mir will integrate especially well with unity"... >< ]That perception, that Canonical is not competing on fair termsalmost anything they come up with, no matter how awful, will come with a built-in user baseis one of the big reasons they get so much flack for this sort of thing.

Flack definitions

noun

a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer

See also: flak

noun

intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"

See also: fire attack flak blast

noun

artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes

See also: antiaircraft flak pom-pom ack-ack