Example sentences for: flippant

How can you use “flippant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • What's saved him from grimness is his status as an outsider, his flippant sense of humor, and his lovable grin.

  • She recently published a book called The Language of Silence , about German literature's relationship to the Holocaust, in which she accuses Grass of a flippant disregard for Germany's victims: "[T]here is an ingrained obtuseness and insensitivity to those who suffered and died, evident in a language where silence is veiled in verbal dexterity and a creative exuberance rooted in pre-Holocaust aesthetics."

  • Even if the site asked the question more precisely--say, by asking users if they prefer government-managed savings or private savings--it would reduce an issue of agonizing actuarial detail to a flippant one-liner.

  • The flippant headline "Kenya Catch Them" in the Aug. 11 "Today's Papers" is way out of bounds.

  • Surely you wouldn't be so flippant with a list of pejoratives associated with another minority group--blacks or Hispanics, for instance--or pretend that one negatively perceived member of the group stands for the whole.


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