Example sentences for: flippant

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

  • It's a flippant comparison, to be sure, but it's one that illuminates the reasons why gambling has not been an economic panacea for other parts of the country, parts where the New Deal actually had an impact, for example.

  • 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."

  • Harris, on radio, is laid-back, flippant, casual, with a little buzz on.

  • Usually it's in the last paragraph, and it's usually some flippant remark that would be witty if it were only true.


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