Sentence example with the word 'flippant'

flippant

airy, catcalling, derisory, flip, hissing, jocular, offhand, reckless, shallow, superficial, unmindful

Definition adj. showing inappropriate levity

Last update: February 26, 2016


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I 'd say something flippant like, " If I die, you can have my boots ".   [adjective]

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He who uses this word in a flippant manner is guilty of taking the name of the Lord in vain.   [adjective]

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"I cannot make a jest of life," he said once, in reply to some flippant speech of De Malfort's; "it is too painful a business for the majority."'   [adjective]

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"It's okay," he said in a flippant tone.   [Please select]

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Abolitionists who had lived in slave States never indulged in flippant remarks fitted to incite insurrection.   [Please select]

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"Are you going to talk to me in that flippant manner when we are married."   [Please select]

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She raised her eyes to mine and answered, "We are grave; let us seem flippant."   [Please select]

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Her replies to him were either flippant, or else maternal, as to a child.   [Please select]

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"Tooting," he said, "you've got a very flippant way of speaking of serious things."   [Please select]

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