FLIPPANT in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for FLIPPANT, such as:

1. The clerk was flippant and urban.
2. Ah, don't talk of it in that flippant way.
3. He encouraged her to speak her mind, to be flippant and daring.
4. And this surpassed even ridicule, the flippant young laughed no more.
5. It's easy to be flippant, but we have a serious problem to deal with here.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLIPPANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flippant
 a.  lacking proper seriousness; speaking freely; talkative; communicative
Classic Sentence:
1  "I should cry into my pillow every night," said Scarlett, meaning to be flippant, but he took the statement at face value and went red with pleasure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  He encouraged her to speak her mind, to be flippant and daring.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
3  The clerk was flippant and urban.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  Whether she wore a low middy collar or dressed reticently for school in a black suit with a high-necked blouse, she was airy, flippant.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  She realized, in the taxicab, that he was wearing a soft gray suit, a soft easy hat, a flippant tie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  And this surpassed even ridicule, the flippant young laughed no more.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  He was much too hurt in himself, the great shock of his maiming, to be easy and flippant.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  Ah, don't talk of it in that flippant way.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
9  He thought that he had already had time to lose his temper with Ivan, to show coolness to his brother, and to talk flippantly with Katavasov.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 14
10  You put the matter more flippantly, Mr. Holmes, than you would probably do if you were brought into personal contact with these things.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
Example Sentence:
1  When Mark told Mona he loved her, she dismissed his earnest declaration with a flippant "Oh, you say that to all the girls!".
2  It's easy to be flippant, but we have a serious problem to deal with here.