flippant

/flip-uhnt/US // ˈflɪp ənt //UK // (ˈflɪpənt) //

轻描淡写,轻描淡写的,轻率的,轻率

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- : Chiefly Dialect. nimble, limber, or pliant.
- : Archaic. glib; voluble.

adj.irreverent

Synonyms

To say it’s wrong would be as flippant as the people spraining their thumbs with their flurry of tweets.
At the risk of sounding unduly flippant, I want to put in a good word for books that contribute to what Samuel Johnson called “the gaiety of nations” and “the public stock of harmless pleasure.”
Rangel was frequently flippant on the campaign trail - once pulling out an iPad to answer a question during a televised debate.
When the editor of Outside magazine, Alex Heard, tweeted that I had made an ass of myself, my response was arrogant and flippant.
Meanwhile, the real Angela Merkel was predictably less flippant than her phony Twitter doppelgänger.
Ali Gharib said after the fact that he realized the comments were flippant and irresponsible.
He seems implacably bespectacled—admonitory even in his flippant asides.
Hadria was incorrigibly flippant about the banishment of important local subjects.
Lucian attaches an intelligible meaning to these flippant expletives, and represents Socrates as justifying their use.
He had fired up on one occasion when Professor Theobald said something flippant about Mrs. Temperley.
Her mien was quite serious, but her tone was sprightly—even flippant.

/flip-uhnt/US // ˈflɪp ənt //UK // (ˈflɪpənt) //

轻描淡写,轻描淡写的,轻率的,轻率

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- : Chiefly Dialect. nimble, limber, or pliant.
- : Archaic. glib; voluble.

adj.irreverent

Synonyms

To say it’s wrong would be as flippant as the people spraining their thumbs with their flurry of tweets.
At the risk of sounding unduly flippant, I want to put in a good word for books that contribute to what Samuel Johnson called “the gaiety of nations” and “the public stock of harmless pleasure.”
Rangel was frequently flippant on the campaign trail - once pulling out an iPad to answer a question during a televised debate.
When the editor of Outside magazine, Alex Heard, tweeted that I had made an ass of myself, my response was arrogant and flippant.
Meanwhile, the real Angela Merkel was predictably less flippant than her phony Twitter doppelgänger.
Ali Gharib said after the fact that he realized the comments were flippant and irresponsible.
He seems implacably bespectacled—admonitory even in his flippant asides.
Hadria was incorrigibly flippant about the banishment of important local subjects.
Lucian attaches an intelligible meaning to these flippant expletives, and represents Socrates as justifying their use.
He had fired up on one occasion when Professor Theobald said something flippant about Mrs. Temperley.
Her mien was quite serious, but her tone was sprightly—even flippant.