What is "flippantly"

Usage examples of "flippantly".

It seemed to me that lightly and flippantly we had approached the most real and august of sacraments, that communion with the dead of which the fathers of the Church had spoken.

Although he threw the news out flippantly, she could tell he was concerned.

I remember when Bentley had a burning boyish admiration for Professor Huxley, and when that scientist died some foolish friend asked him quite flippantly in a letter what he felt about it.

He had inadvertently spoken to her as flippantly as he used to when he subvocalized so she could overhear him through the jewel.

Andrew was about to answer flippantly when Celia stopped him with a gesture.

And when he boasted of his subtle discriminations, though he boasted flippantly, he spoke no less than the truth.

Spencer wondered rather flippantly whether this was Jill's prime attractive feature - that she was the only woman in the world who would tolerate being made love to by a man still wearing his socks.

And all the while that this agonized questioning went on within him, he talked flippantly to Conrad, enraging the cross-grained doorkeeper to the point of homicidal mania.

Flippantly described as a `tough cookie heroine', she will certainly kill in a tight corner, but is also sensitive, compassionate and the deliverer of some of the best wise-cracks in the genre`Her impending nuptials had lowered her IQ several critical points,' being a typical example.