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Answer for the clue "Not very serious ", 8 letters:
flippant
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Word definitions for flippant in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context archaic English) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity 2 (context chiefly dialectal English) nimble; limber. 3 Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Kalb gave a flippant answer to the question. ▪ People ask me if I'm related to him, and my answer is usually a flippant "No, but I wish I were." ▪ Sorry if that sounded flippant or heartless - it wasn't meant to be. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flippant \Flip"pant\, n. A flippant person. [R.] --Tennyson.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. showing inappropriate levity [syn: light-minded ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "talkative, nimble in talk;" 1670s, "displaying unbecoming levity," apparently an extended form of flip (v.). The ending is perhaps modeled on other adjectives in -ant or a relic of the Middle English present participle ending -inde . Shortened ...
Usage examples of flippant.
Behind the flippant words Ardagh was making the point that war was a bitter business and, more politely than Fisher, was ridiculing the notion that it could be civilized.
Trim housemaids were hurrying backwards and forwards under the directions of a fresh bustling landlady, but still seizing an occasional moment to exchange a flippant word and have a rallying laugh with the group round the fire.
Only Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, whose every thought since he had met Suzanne de Tournay seemed keener, more gentle, more innately sympathetic, noted the curious look of intense longing, of deep and hopeless passion, with which the inane and flippant Sir Percy followed the retreating figure of his brilliant wife.
Flippant, flyblow, half-baked wiseacreing is about the worst thing in the world, compared to honest ignorance.
At such times she astonished him by taking his most solemn histrionics with flippant incredulity, and even burlesquing them.
Keen reader of emotions as he was, he had not failed to note a distinct change in the drawly voice, a sound of something hard and trenchant in the flippant laugh, ever since Marguerite's name was first mentioned.
When I was working Down Below I would have written a flippant headline about the world's largest chicken barbecue, assuming the place was fully insured and no particular loss.
It came out sounding too flippant, but the Count did not seem to take it in bad part.
I had no idea you were intimate with her, or I should never have talked in this flippant, superficial way.