flippant

Example Sentences

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He later qualified his remarks - following opposition criticism of his "insulting" and "flippant" tone - saying he "fully" supports the Black Lives Matter campaign.

From BBC

Naturally, people are curious but they can ask flippant and naive questions, asking why my hair is so long and why I need to have it like it is.

From BBC

It doesn’t seem right that the spirit of such a pure and exuberant character should be reduced to something so flippant and basically cynical.

From New York Times

With the same flippant tone that catapulted his 2000 song “Because I Got High” to fame, Afroman laid his grievances with the sheriff’s department on a beat.

From Washington Post

He was then "quite flippant and dismissed it".

From BBC