flippant

Example Sentences

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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

The lines written four decades ago now come across as flippant about dwarfism; the better joke, anyway, is the princes’ squabble about how to pronounce “dwarves.”

From Washington Post

With its wisecracking hero and flippant tone, 2019’s “Shazam!” arrived as a bolt of inspiration in the gloomy DC Extended Universe.

From Washington Post

Mr. Findling and Ms. Little argued that some of the details Ms. Kohrs discussed underscored what Ms. Little called the “flippant, jovial, almost disrespectful approach” of the broader investigation.

From New York Times

He noted that Price didn’t say how Ravnsborg responded and that the text may have been a “flippant” remark.

From Seattle Times