How to Use flippant in a Sentence
flippant
adjective- He made a flippant response to a serious question.
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The episode’s flippant tone and use of stereotypes rubbed many viewers the wrong way.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
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Trixie nailed the flirty, flippant vibe of the song, while Pearl just looked mad the whole time.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Mar. 2022
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It’s much harder to be flippant about an idea that didn’t work.
—Patrick Mullane, Fortune, 21 June 2017
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Or maybe, at the risk of seeming too flippant, that comma should be a colon.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2023
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The breakout star of the series was sassy, smart, urbane and flippant Lance Loud.
—Tim Sommer, Billboard, 25 June 2019
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But when asked about one of their own, Psaki went flippant.
—Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 12 Mar. 2021
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The art of bluffing in itself, which is what the movie is all about, isn’t something to be flippant about.
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
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This doesn’t mean that Christians should be flippant about death.
—Daniel Darling, National Review, 10 Apr. 2020
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The video then shows all the flippant ways younger employees sign emails to their older boss.
—Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
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The five words that make up the album title aren't random or flippant.
—Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 16 May 2024
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And not to sound too flippant, but that sounds really bad.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2017
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The book is a little cold, a little nasty, a little flippant.
—New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
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Waller-Bridge found a way to be clever and flippant and yet moving in her loneliness.
—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2019
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Wilcox and Graves described it in interviews as a flippant comment, fired off in the heat of the moment.
—Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Jan. 2024
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Axiom itself has been more flippant about word usage in the past.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 8 Apr. 2022
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Axiom itself has been more flippant about word usage in the past.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
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Axiom itself has been more flippant about word usage in the past.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
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Honor Among Thieves is not without its flippant pleasures, most of them courtesy of the cast.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 11 Mar. 2023
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To veer away from this register runs the risk of sounding flippant, even cruel.
—Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2024
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For me, the flippant dialogue muddied the tone around Bela’s assault.
—Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2021
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Drug use is flippant and rampant, the music is big and gaudy, and none of the shots were actually filmed on the island or in its clubs.
—Kat Bein, Billboard, 26 June 2018
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Later in the episode, Seema tells Carrie how hurtful this flippant comment was to her.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2022
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At first the flippant tone of some of these scenes seems a bit off, but the movie (full of narrative curves) eventually makes tonal sense.
—Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 4 Apr. 2018
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Sure, TikTok trends put a flippant and funny spin on it for the frustrated and betrothed.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2022
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The next-man-up mentality was going to play a role and make their approach feel flippant at times.
—Dan Labbe, cleveland, 19 Nov. 2020
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The outrage over Spencer’s flippant comments wasn’t because of young George’s status.
—Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2019
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And yet some critics have already pounced on the premise of the show, suggesting that the very concept is flippant and insensitive.
—Daniel Arkin /, NBC News, 10 July 2018
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Musk is known for roiling markets with his sometimes flippant and ill-advised tweets.
—BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2021
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Claiming ignorance or hyper-fixating on a flippant detail from the past gets us nowhere.
—Claire Franken, TVLine, 23 Feb. 2025
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