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flippant 音标拼音: [fl'ɪpənt] a. 轻率的,没礼貌的,嘴碎的 轻率的,没礼貌的,嘴碎的 flippant adj 1: showing inappropriate levity [ synonym: { flippant}, { light- minded}] Flippant \ Flip" pant\, a. [ Prov. E. flip to move nimbly; cf. W. llipa soft, limber, pliant, or Icel. fleipa to babble, prattle. Cf. { Flip}, { Fillip}, { Flap}, { Flipper}.] 1. Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative. [ 1913 Webster] It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech. -- Barrow. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant. " Flippant epilogues." -- Thomson. [ 1913 Webster] To put flippant scorn to the blush. -- I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] A sort of flippant, vain discourse. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster]
Flippant \ Flip" pant\, n. A flippant person. [ R.] -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] 108 Moby Thesaurus words for " flippant": airy, bantering, belittling, biggety, bluff, booing, brash, brazen, careless, casual, catcalling, chaffing, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, cursory, degage, derisive, derisory, discourteous, dismissive, disregardant, disregardful, disrespectful, easygoing, facetious, facy, fleering, flip, fooling, forgetful, free and easy, fresh, frivolous, gally, gratuitous, grinning, heedless, hissing, hooting, impertinent, impudent, inconsiderate, indifferent, insolent, insouciant, irreverent, jeering, jocular, joshing, kidding, lazy, leering, light- hearted, malapert, mocking, nervy, oblivious, offhand, offhanded, panning, perfunctory, pert, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, reckless, regardless, respectless, ridiculing, roasting, rude, sassy, saucy, scoffing, scornful, shallow, smart, smart- alecky, smart- ass, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, supercilious, superficial, tactless, taunting, teasing, thoughtless, twitting, uncalled- for, undiplomatic, unheedful, unheeding, unmindful, unprepared, unready, unserious, unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, wise- ass
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