adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Kalb gave a flippant answer to the question.
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People ask me if I'm related to him, and my answer is usually a flippant "No, but I wish I were."
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Sorry if that sounded flippant or heartless - it wasn't meant to be.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Despite the slightly flippant tone I have adopted, this essay is based on hard science.
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He did not mind being flippant about New York, but disliked to hear any one else take the same tone.
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If I am flippant , it's perhaps because nearly all these books are awkward about the limitations of psychology.
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That's not a flippant answer.
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This consideration was not a flippant one.
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Under that flippant attitude he liked to show at Park Crescent was a mind like quicksilver.
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You're not really ridiculing the anger I experience at your flippant pseudo-feminist attitude.