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How to use flippant in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective

Flippant means showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert. Example: “The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant, at least.”

Examples of flippant by meaning

adjectiveShowing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.

  • 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

More sentences with flippant

  • Binh didn’t want friends who were so flippant or had such short-term thinking.2024, Jodi Rodgers, “Dennis’s Nod”, in How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover: What Autism Can Teach Us About Difference, Connection and…. From the entry friendable
  • Some social-media congregants had criticized the message as “tacky” and “flippant,” among other things.2023 March 8, Mark Leibovich, “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act”, in The Atlantic. From the entry congregant
  • Ethereal fainthood runs its flippant mileage per incarnation, whether unflowered or not.2007, Vernon Frazer, Bodied Tone - Page 102. From the entry fainthood
  • “Your mental attitude, Martin, always inclines to the flippant and dicacious.2004 July 2 (reprint date; date of first publication unknown), Hugh McAlister, The Flight of the Silver Ship: Around the World Aboard a…. From the entry dicacious
  • Ah thought he wis being harsh, flippant and show-oafy, until ah got sae far in.1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry ken
  • The Young Turks, as might have been expected, wrote in their customary flippant, cheeky style.1909, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 7, in The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England. From the entry cheeky
  • "Flippant and silly," said her real self.1918 June, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Prelude”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company…. From the entry twaddle
  • One must often attend to the tail and ensure it remains tucked and not become flippant, so as to maintain a catloaf of presentable form.2004 January 9, Franz Bestuchev, “Re: catloaf”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Jul 2024. From the entry catloaf
  • I don't remember the conversation totally verbatim, yet I remember the tone — increasingly angry on my part, and flippant and snide on his.1979 February 10, Pat M. Kuras, “The Rubber Gun Backfires”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 28, page 5. From the entry counter
  • But just now she felt that there was something flippant and unseemly in talking such fantastic rubbish: dreams seemed out of place when reality was so heartbreaking.1933, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter II, in The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons…. From the entry rubbish

Meaning of flippant

  1. adjective Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
  2. adjective Loquacious; speaking with ease and rapidity.
  3. adjective Nimble; limber.

Full definition of flippant

Questions about flippant in a sentence

How do you use flippant in a sentence?
Flippant is used as an adjective. For example: “The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant, at least.”
What is a short sentence with flippant?
“"Flippant and silly," said her real self.”
What does flippant mean?
Flippant means showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.

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