Cleverly amusing in tone.
Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour.
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Examples for "flippant "
Examples for "flippant "
1 She didn't respond to his flippant comment or even glance his way.
2 In their place she found only exceeding worldliness, or the flippant commonplace.
3 The first month, he was flippant and treated the whole thing lightly.
4 To make it all the worse this stranger had been decidedly flippant .
5 People think I'm girlish and flippant , but I was an honours student.
1 Ralph had usually treated it facetiously; but present circumstances proscribed the facetious .
2 Sir, - Your report of August 12th was inappropriately facetious and inaccurate.
3 The termination of the miseries of this facetious genius was now approaching.
4 But the honorable member was inclined to be facetious on the subject.
5 Straight across the tops of two columns it ran, a facetious caption:
6 From most guys, the answer would have been nothing short of facetious .
7 His attempt to sound facetious was not altogether convincing, and nobody smiled.
8 But Esther was far from giving the proposal so facetious a reception.
9 Does the facetious Lucilius make no alterations in the tragedies of Accius?
10 After this facetious threat he paid no further attention to the messenger.
11 Only Maulo, the camp jester, hurled a facetious comment at the corpse.
12 Occasionally, and very carefully, the facetious sociologist administered a real bruising blow.
13 Then came another of my devils - my facetious devil-andhe made me laugh.
14 That night Aurora-surnamed Australis by a facetious digger-wasparticularly attentive to Done.
15 Then, convinced at last, he took alarm, and dropped his facetious attitude.
16 His face expressed a facetious weariness, but his shoulders, too, were swaying.
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