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flippant

/flip-uhnt/US // ˈflɪp ənt //UK // (ˈflɪpənt) //

轻描淡写,轻描淡写的,轻率的,轻率

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.