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Meanings of flippant in inglês

Showing inappropriate levity.

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Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour.

Synonyms
Examples for "light-minded"
Examples for "light-minded"
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
Usage of flippant in inglês
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
6
Our American atmosphere is vocal with the flippant loquacity of half knowledge.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
7
Impertinent and flippant, I was universally hailed an original and a wit.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20,...
8
The man who reverses the Fifth flippant jester, but a philosophic thinker.
Without Prejudice
9
It is very flippant, but you see I am honest about it.
A Daughter of To-Day
10
I would have preferred to tell you in person. He sounded flippant.
Mentats of Dune
11
Henslow had been pleasant enough, but a little flippant after the election.
A Prince of Sinners
12
But now she felt oddly serious and unlike her usual flippant self.
A Damsel in Distress
13
If they are apt to be flippant and bitter, so was I.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
14
If a fourth-class power insults our flag we accept a flippant apology.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
15
Her former flippant indifference to his remonstrances now changed into abject fear.
Barriers Burned Away
16
To that end she answered every sentimental remark with a flippant one.
The Visioning: A Novel
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Flippant through the time
Flippant across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common