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[ US /ˈfɫɪpənt/ ]
[ UK /flˈɪpənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. showing inappropriate levity

How To Use flippant In A Sentence

  • If that sounds harsh or flippant, just take a look at the discographies of rock's most enduringly successful acts. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sounds like such a flippant comment. Christianity Today
  • It's easy to be flippant, but we have a serious problem to deal with here.
  • They didn't flippantly joke, they crafted campaigns of division and anger, using catch phrases and terrifying tag lines to batter America into submission. Charles Karel Bouley: Tucson: In the Blame Game, We All Lose
  • You are flippantly omitting a "yet" -- "possibly kill the man who probably is not YET a murderer ... The Preponderance of the Evidence, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Then discuss what it means to love your enemy, to respect human life, and to never lightly or flippantly approach the topic of death.
  • This flippant remark pinpoints an essential truth: Mae West was a woman who lived as if she were a man.
  • It's easy to be flippant, but we have a serious problem to deal with here.
  • We probably falter unless our choices instinctively prove inherent qualities, be they serious or flippant.
  • Groucho Marx's flippant remark about the inability of any photograph to capture his inner beauty is profoundly insightful.
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