flippant 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.
flippant 近义词
irreverent
更多flippant例句
- To say it’s wrong would be as flippant as the people spraining their thumbs with their flurry of tweets.
- At the risk of sounding unduly flippant, I want to put in a good word for books that contribute to what Samuel Johnson called “the gaiety of nations” and “the public stock of harmless pleasure.”
- Rangel was frequently flippant on the campaign trail - once pulling out an iPad to answer a question during a televised debate.
- When the editor of Outside magazine, Alex Heard, tweeted that I had made an ass of myself, my response was arrogant and flippant.
- Meanwhile, the real Angela Merkel was predictably less flippant than her phony Twitter doppelgänger.
- Ali Gharib said after the fact that he realized the comments were flippant and irresponsible.
- He seems implacably bespectacled—admonitory even in his flippant asides.
- Hadria was incorrigibly flippant about the banishment of important local subjects.
- Lucian attaches an intelligible meaning to these flippant expletives, and represents Socrates as justifying their use.
- He had fired up on one occasion when Professor Theobald said something flippant about Mrs. Temperley.
- Her mien was quite serious, but her tone was sprightly—even flippant.
- That flippant remark broke the tension and the driver climbed gingerly out and viewed the bare hub.