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单词 flippant
释义
flippant
adjective
uk
/ˈflɪp.ənt/us
/ˈflɪp.ənt/
(UKinformalflip)
notseriousabout aserioussubject, in anattemptto befunnyor toappearclever:
轻率的；浮夸的
a flippantremark/attitude轻率的言论／态度
It'seasyto be flippant, but we have aseriousproblemtodealwith here.油嘴滑舌容易，但我们有正经问题要解决。
Ithinkshe justthoughtI was being flippant.我想她只是认为我态度轻率。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not showing careful thought
  • airily
  • airiness
  • airy
  • bash
  • bashsomethingout
  • cuff
  • frivolous
  • frivolously
  • ill-conceived
  • incautious
  • incautiously
  • off the cuffidiom
  • preconceived
  • shallow
  • shallowly
  • shallowness
  • shoot from the hipidiom
  • thoughtless
  • unconsidered
  • unthinking
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flippancy
flippantly
(Definition offlippantfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

flippant| American Dictionary

flippant
adjective
us
/ˈflɪp·ənt/
(infmlflip,us/flɪp/)
showingor having arudeattitudeof not beingseriousesp. bytryingto beamusingwhen mostpeopleexpectyou to beserious:
We hadlostthousands ofdollars, so we did notappreciatehis flippantremarkabout "betterlucknexttime."
(Definition offlippantfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofflippant

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Without beingflippant, this reviewer would reply that they were largely being determined on the field of battle - something that overshadowed everything else.
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Now this soundsflippant, this not getting things serviced.
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This new art was only apparentlyflippantand friendly.
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Jung's handling of persona questions seems somewhatflippant.
From theCambridge English Corpus
He was veryflippantin parts of his speech and completely callous in other parts of it.
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It would be difficult to devise a more callous andflippantanswer than that.
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I must not becomeflippant, because this is an important subject.
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This is not a laughing matter to be treated in theflippanttone that she has adopted.
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We all know how easy it is to use such aflippantphrase, and how difficult it is to achieve it.
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I certainly did not mean that in anyflippantway.
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He treated the argument in a veryflippantway.
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I am not making aflippantinterjection in the debate.
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I also know that error is in its natureflippantand compendious.
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I have too little time to follow thoseflippantpaths.
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The point, of course, is that it is extremely difficult to define what isflippantand what is grave criticism.
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