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Webster 1913 Edition
Flippant
Flip′pant
,Adj.
1.
Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
It becometh good men, in such cases, to be
flippant
and free in their speech. Barrow.
2.
Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant.
“Flippant epilogues.” Thomson.
To put
flippant
scorn to the blush. I. Taylor.
A sort of
flippant
, vain discourse. Burke.
Flip′pant
,Noun.
A flippant person.
[R.]
Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Flippant
FLIP'PANT
,Adj.
1.
Of smoother, fluent and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.2.
Pert; petulant; waggish.Away with flippant epilogues.
Definition 2024
flippant
flippant
English
Adjective
flippant (comparative more flippant, superlative most flippant)
- (archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity
- Barrow
- It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech.
- Barrow
- (chiefly dialectal) nimble; limber.
- Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
- Burke
- a sort of flippant, vain discourse
- 1998, Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch
- The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant, at least.
- 2000, Anthony Howard and Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman, March 13, 2000
- In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine.
- 2004, Allen Carr, The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, page 147
- Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.
- Burke
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:cheeky
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
lacking respect
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See also
External links
- flippant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- flippant in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911