What is "flippant"

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.