Would he dress her down for her flippant words?

She dismissed his flippant words.

I looked down at the black dress, such as I had worn nearly two years for him, and raged as I remembered Sara's flippant words.

"Do you withdraw the flippant words you used to a member of this august body?"

"All right," said Kim Ford softly, and Dave knew that she was responding to his thought and not his flippant words.