flippancy 的定义
- frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- Chiefly Dialect. nimble, limber, or pliant.
- Archaic. glib; voluble.
flippancy 近义词
irreverence
更多flippancy例句
- "That I don't know, sir," the girl replied, speaking with a flippancy that was careless and almost impertinent.
- In parliament he had hitherto opposed all popular measures, sometimes with insolent flippancy.
- "They might as well kill a man as scare him to death," he said, with an attempt to get back to his customary flippancy.
- But when he had carefully dressed for it, and was immersed in its shallow flippancy, he reacted the other way.
- In the ecstatic solemnity with which she swore her faith to him the ordinary sensibilities of sex seemed a flippancy.