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.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • It is unfortunate that your writer elected to treat this topic with a flippant disregard for the emotional stress associated with impotence.


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