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Meanings of light-minded in English

Showing inappropriate levity.

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        Examples for "flippant"
        1
        She didn't respond to his flippant comment or even glance his way.
        Don't cry
        2
        In their place she found only exceeding worldliness, or the flippant commonplace.
        Finger Posts on the Way of Life
        3
        The first month, he was flippant and treated the whole thing lightly.
        The 5 love languages: the secret to love that lasts
        4
        To make it all the worse this stranger had been decidedly flippant.
        Betty Zane
        5
        People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student.
        The Guardian
        Usage of light-minded in English
        1
        It made the light-hearted lighter in heart, the light-minded heavy in soul.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 / A Magazine...
        2
        Lon always was kind of light-minded, even after the state went dry.
        Ma Pettengill
        3
        I wonder you are so light-minded at such a time as this.
        Ruth Fielding at the War Front; or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldie...
        4
        You do, you certainly do, rate me with the light-minded, don't you?
        The Twenty-Fourth of June: Midsummer's Day
        5
        My mother must have sure been frivolous and light-minded when I was born.
        The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories
        6
        S. Gobat, describes the Abyssinians as light-minded, having nothing constant but inconstancy itself.
        Primitive Love and Love-Stories
        7
        She will be easy prey, because she is light-minded and inexperienced.
        The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert
        8
        I don't hold with the light-minded that want to get away from retribution.
        Up the Hill and Over
        9
        Right or wrong, he is never hard, never shallow, never light-minded.
        True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libr...
        10
        I wish to be gay and free, light-minded and merry-hearted to-day.
        Frederick the Great and His Family: A Historical Novel
        11
        How could that light-minded woman have so deeply wounded my father?
        The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
        12
        It may sometimes prove exhausting to its light-minded readers, but it never exhausts itself.
        The Jericho Road
        13
        I thought England was a light-minded, cheerful kind of place.
        The Judge
        14
        But men are very light-minded as a rule, I think.
        In the Wilderness
        15
        Was the love of that ruddy-faced, light-minded, lying dancer a thousandth part of Saul's?
        Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers
        16
        The light-minded get it from changes in the weather.
        The Bibliotaph, and Other People
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        Light-minded through the time