MEANING
Treating something serious with inappropriate casualness or humor.
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Words that belong together
- flippant remark
- flippant tone
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His flippant remark landed badly beside the hospital bed.
She adopted a flippant tone to keep the question away from her grief.
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- flippant
Usage notes
Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Comparative more flippant; superlative most flippant where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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