flippant

IPA: fɫˈɪpʌnt

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.

Examples of "flippant" in Sentences

* Flipe -- One who is "flippant" -- of which word it is the substantive, and a good one too.
They were near enough now to hear the voices of those ashore, gay voices calling flippant greetings.
Readers of Taine will recall his flippant Gaelic comment on Tennyson's conventional but cold words of lament.
There are levels to him that rise and fall as his emotions do, yet underneath the flippant is a deep guy with a good heart.
Vidmar was asked whether he was "too nice" and not "ruthless" enough towards his players, to which he offered what he has since described as a flippant response.
I am somewhat familiar with Prof. Schindler's work as an accomplished theologian and his articles are far from 'flippant' but on the contrary very measured and reasonable.
If she is right, I can only suppose that Miss Pettigrew in using the word flippant meant to support the authority of her subordinates and to snub Lalage for attempting to rebel against time-honoured tradition.
I believe that here Mephistopheles represents especially that element in human nature which is perhaps the meanest and most disgusting of all, namely flippant and vulgar irreverence, and although we may not agree with John Wesley's definition of man as 'half brute, half devil,' most of us will probably allow that a certain part of our nature (that part which Mephistopheles seems to represent) is capable of an irreverence and a vulgarity of which the devil himself might almost be ashamed.