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Webster 1913 Edition


Flippantly

Flip′pant-ly

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adv.
In a flippant manner.

Webster 1828 Edition


Flippantly

FLIP'PANTLY

,
adv.
Fluently; with ease and volubility of speech.

Definition 2024


flippantly

flippantly

English

Adverb

flippantly (comparative more flippantly, superlative most flippantly)

  1. In a flippant manner.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 17, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.”  She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.