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Significados de flippant em inglês

Showing inappropriate levity.

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Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour.

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Examples for "facetious"
Examples for "facetious"
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Ralph had usually treated it facetiously; but present circumstances proscribed the facetious.
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1
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Sir, - Your report of August 12th was inappropriately facetious and inaccurate.
The Irish Times
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The termination of the miseries of this facetious genius was now approaching.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1
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But the honorable member was inclined to be facetious on the subject.
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845
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Straight across the tops of two columns it ran, a facetious caption:
North of Fifty-Three
Uso de flippant em inglês
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She didn't respond to his flippant comment or even glance his way.
Don't cry
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In their place she found only exceeding worldliness, or the flippant commonplace.
Finger Posts on the Way of Life
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The first month, he was flippant and treated the whole thing lightly.
The 5 love languages: the secret to love that lasts
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To make it all the worse this stranger had been decidedly flippant.
Betty Zane
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People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student.
The Guardian
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Our American atmosphere is vocal with the flippant loquacity of half knowledge.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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Impertinent and flippant, I was universally hailed an original and a wit.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20,...
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The man who reverses the Fifth flippant jester, but a philosophic thinker.
Without Prejudice
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It is very flippant, but you see I am honest about it.
A Daughter of To-Day
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I would have preferred to tell you in person. He sounded flippant.
Mentats of Dune
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Henslow had been pleasant enough, but a little flippant after the election.
A Prince of Sinners
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But now she felt oddly serious and unlike her usual flippant self.
A Damsel in Distress
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If they are apt to be flippant and bitter, so was I.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
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If a fourth-class power insults our flag we accept a flippant apology.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
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Her former flippant indifference to his remonstrances now changed into abject fear.
Barriers Burned Away
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To that end she answered every sentimental remark with a flippant one.
The Visioning: A Novel
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