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comparative more flippant, superlative most flippant
Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert. quotations examples
a sort of flippant, vain discourse
1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […]
The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant, at least.
1998, Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch
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.
2000, Anthony Howard, Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman, March 13, 2000
Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.
2004, Allen Carr, The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, page 147
(archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity quotations
It becometh good men, in such cases, to be pleasantly flippant and free in their speech.
November 5, 1673, Isaac Barrow, sermon on the Gunpowder Treason
(chiefly dialectal) nimble; limber. examples