flippant
IPA: fɫˈɪpʌnt
adjective
- Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
- (archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity
- (chiefly dialectal) nimble; limber.
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Examples of "flippant" in Sentences
- The reply was quite flippant.
- To do so is flippant at the very least.
- Being flippant is not the same as being rude.
- It's full of flippant, caustic remarks about the subject.
- That's my excuse for the flippant reply to the chemist manque.
- I am tiring of the flippant replies and lack of collaboration.
- The crack about mailing a check was not intended to be flippant.
- I don't mean to be flippant, but look that up in the dictionary.
- Moore's argument is not simply a flippant response to the skeptic.
- Bourgeois families came to study the flippant manners of their superiors.
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