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Flippant

Flippant Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Flippant?
[adj] showing inappropriate levity
Synonyms | Synonyms for Flippant: frivolous | light-minded Related Terms | Find terms related to Flippant: airy | bantering | belittling | biggety | bluff | booing | brash | brazen | careless | casual | catcalling | chaffing | cheeky | chutzpadik | cocky | contemptuous | crusty | cursory | degage | derisive | derisory | discourteous | dismissive | disregardant | disregardful | disrespectful | easygoing | facetious | facy | fleering | flip | fooling | forgetful | free and easy | fresh | frivolous | gally | gratuitous | grinning | heedless | hissing | hooting | impertinent | impudent | inconsiderate | indifferent | insolent | insouciant | irreverent | jeering | jocular | joshing | kidding | lazy | leering | light-hearted | malapert | mocking | nervy | oblivious | offhand | offhanded | panning | perfunctory | pert | quizzical | ragging | railing | rallying | razzing | reckless | regardless | respectless | ridiculing | roasting | rude | sassy | saucy | scoffing | scornful | shallow | smart | smart-alecky | smart-ass | smirking | sneering | snickering | sniggering | snorting | supercilious | superficial | tactless | taunting | teasing | thoughtless | twitting | uncalled-for | undiplomatic | unheedful | unheeding | unmindful | unprepared | unready | unserious | unsolicitous | untactful | unthinking | wise-ass See Also | Flippant In Webster's Dictionary \Flip"pant\, a. [Prov. E. flip to move nimbly; cf. W.
llipa soft, limber, pliant, or Icel. fleipa to babble,
prattle. Cf. {Flip}, {Fillip}, {Flap}, {Flipper}.]
1. Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease
and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant
and free in their speech. --Barrow.
2. Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or
consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert;
petulant. ``Flippant epilogues.'' --Thomson.
To put flippant scorn to the blush. --I. Taylor.
A sort of flippant, vain discourse. --Burke.
\Flip"pant\, n. A flippant person. [R.] --Tennyson. |
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