Words similar to flak

Example sentences for: flak

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But she has taken a lot of flak lately for being so chipper and enthusiastic about movies everyone else hated, such as The Phantom Menace and Eyes Wide Shut.
Gore also takes flak for his visit to Southern tornado disaster sites.
It's a measure of the self-confidence of the American Catholic hierarchy that the flak in the Clinton flap came from the other direction.
My own etymology, which seems painfully obvious, is revealed if one acknowledges that the proper spelling is flak , which at once clarifies the etymological origin: flak .
Under the headline "A very Irish ambassador," the newspaper said that, despite her hotline to the White House and her friendship with the leaders of Sinn Fein, she had not been central to the launching of the peace process in Northern Ireland but had been used "to take the flak," while Clinton, Anthony Lake, Nancy Soderberg, and Ulster Social Democrat leader John Hume "worked away quietly" behind the scenes.