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Flippant
"Flippant" in a Sentence (11 examples)
Don't be flippant about this.
His response was flippant.
Her flippant attitude won't get her hired.
It was a flippant comment.
Tom made a flippant remark.
I know what it means to have a temper. You’ve seen what I'm like when I lose control. But even at my worst, I'd never willingly kill someone! And if I did, I know I'd feel some serious remorse for it. Even if I'd felt vindicated in the moment, once I calmed down, I'd regret my actions. I would never be so blasé or flippant about taking a human life, and neither should you!
a sort of flippant, vain discourse
The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant, at least.
In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine.
Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.
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November 5, 1673, Isaac Barrow, sermon on the Gunpowder Treason It becometh good men, in such cases, to be pleasantly flippant and free in their speech.
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