Wondering how to use Flippant in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as frivolous.
Flippant meaning
- Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
- Loquacious; speaking with ease and rapidity.
- Nimble; limber.
Synonyms of Flippant
Using Flippant
- The main meaning on this page is: Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert. | Loquacious; speaking with ease and rapidity. | Nimble; limber.
- Useful related words include: light-minded, frivolous.
- In the example corpus, flippant often appears in combinations such as: its flippant, flippant with, flippant attitude.
Context around Flippant
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Flippant
- In this selection, "flippant" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, become, somewhat, cruelly, handling, behavior and garrulous stand out and add context to how "flippant" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include for its flippant handling of and advantage with flippant disregard for. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "flippant" sits close to words such as abdulkadir, abed and abhay, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with flippant
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The agency has become flippant, garrulous and loquacious. (8 words)
But don't let these flippant comments deceive you. (9 words)
This is not something that we can be flippant about. (10 words)
Chrissy later publicly posted a series of tweets in which she revealed the comments had left her "upset" and feeling "crappy", and in reply, Alison apologized and admitted it was "flippant" to use the mom-of-two's company as an example. (42 words)
It bears noting that “bully,” which can also be translated as “tease” from the native Russian, was not Shoigu’s preferred way of framing the situation; rather, he was responding to the somewhat flippant prompt posed by the interviewer. (39 words)
Even in 1979, this movie faced a lot of controversy for its flippant depiction of the beginnings of Christianity, and the jokes about gruesome practices, like crucifixion, or diseases, like leprosy, are still a lot to stomach. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Burnham’s flippant but heartbreaking appropriations of West’s autotuned style on Inside’s “” and Make Happy’s “” closely resemble Momney’s autotuned breakdowns.
Kristina wanted to be a surrogate for her sister, but Molly has refused to do so with concerns about Kristina’s flippant behavior.
Over the past few days they have just been flippant with me.
The agency has become flippant, garrulous and loquacious.
We first meet Oppenheimer in 1926 during his studies at Cambridge, where his flippant attitude toward human life is quickly established.
But don't let these flippant comments deceive you.
But what the film shares with the Zellners’ previous pictures is a deft handling of tonal shifts, particularly the delicate tipping point at which flippant absurdity gives way to the darker minor key of melancholy.
Vance, now former President Donald Trump’s pick for vice president, is notoriously conservative and flippant with his words.
But don’t be left under the impression that Freeland is flippant about debt.
Chrissy later publicly posted a series of tweets in which she revealed the comments had left her "upset" and feeling "crappy", and in reply, Alison apologized and admitted it was "flippant" to use the mom-of-two's company as an example.
Even in 1979, this movie faced a lot of controversy for its flippant depiction of the beginnings of Christianity, and the jokes about gruesome practices, like crucifixion, or diseases, like leprosy, are still a lot to stomach.
It bears noting that “bully,” which can also be translated as “tease” from the native Russian, was not Shoigu’s preferred way of framing the situation; rather, he was responding to the somewhat flippant prompt posed by the interviewer.
The announcement of Ms. Monopoly comes a few weeks after the company received criticism for — a tongue-in-cheek game that sparked debate for its flippant handling of socialism.
The announcement of Ms. Monopoly comes a few weeks after the company received criticism for Monopoly Socialism -- a tongue-in-cheek game that sparked debate for its flippant handling of socialism.
The name Penguin came from Sir Allen's wish for a name for the series that was "dignified but flippant".
The Trumplike deity; the shrewd and loitering adversary; the cruelly flippant wager; and the stooge, the cosmic straight man, Job, upon whose oblivious head the sky is about to fall.
This is not something that we can be flippant about.
The most annoying thing is that this is not the first time this group has made such a flippant statement.
Yet Rabuka chooses to manipulate Fiji’s statistics to his advantage, with flippant disregard for the facts.
As he anticipated, his seemingly flippant remark gets him taken away and searched, just in time to divert attention away from Podkayne's luggage, where he has hidden a package he was paid to smuggle aboard.
Common combinations with flippant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: