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flippant

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15
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19
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8
Pronunciation
/ˈflɪp.ənt/(UK)

Definition of flippant

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
    “a sort of flippant, vain discourse”
    “The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant, at least.”
    “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.”
    “Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.”
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adj

  1. Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
    “a sort of flippant, vain discourse”
    “The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant, at least.”
    “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.”
    “Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.”
  2. (archaic)Loquacious; speaking with ease and rapidity.
    “November 5, 1673, Isaac Barrow, sermon on the Gunpowder Treason It becometh good men, in such cases, to be pleasantly flippant and free in their speech.”
  3. (dialectal)Nimble; limber.

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Etymology

1595, from Northern English dialectal flippand (“prattling, babbling, glib”), present participle of flip (“to babble”), of North Germanic origin. Cognate with Icelandic fleipa (“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal flepa (“to talk nonsense”). Alteration of -and suffix (a variant of the participial -ing) to -ant probably due to influence from words in -ant.

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