FLIPPANT in a Sentence
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12 example sentences for FLIPPANT, such as:
1. The clerk was flippant and urban.
2. Ah, don't talk of it in that flippant way.
3. He encouraged her to speak her mind, to be flippant and daring.
4. And this surpassed even ridicule, the flippant young laughed no more.
5. It's easy to be flippant, but we have a serious problem to deal with here.
2. Ah, don't talk of it in that flippant way.
3. He encouraged her to speak her mind, to be flippant and daring.
4. And this surpassed even ridicule, the flippant young laughed no more.
5. It's easy to be flippant, but we have a serious problem to deal with here.
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Meanings and Examples of FLIPPANT
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flippant
a. lacking proper seriousness; speaking freely; talkative; communicative
Classic Sentence:
1 "I should cry into my pillow every night," said Scarlett, meaning to be flippant, but he took the statement at face value and went red with pleasure.
2 He encouraged her to speak her mind, to be flippant and daring.
3 The clerk was flippant and urban.
4 Whether she wore a low middy collar or dressed reticently for school in a black suit with a high-necked blouse, she was airy, flippant.
5 She realized, in the taxicab, that he was wearing a soft gray suit, a soft easy hat, a flippant tie.
6 And this surpassed even ridicule, the flippant young laughed no more.
7 He was much too hurt in himself, the great shock of his maiming, to be easy and flippant.
8 Ah, don't talk of it in that flippant way.
9 He thought that he had already had time to lose his temper with Ivan, to show coolness to his brother, and to talk flippantly with Katavasov.
10 You put the matter more flippantly, Mr. Holmes, than you would probably do if you were brought into personal contact with these things.
Example Sentence:
1 When Mark told Mona he loved her, she dismissed his earnest declaration with a flippant "Oh, you say that to all the girls!".
2 It's easy to be flippant, but we have a serious problem to deal with here.