flippant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++flip·pant /ˈflɪpənt/ adjective JOKING/NOT SERIOUSnot being serious about something that other people think you should be serious about 轻率的；轻浮的 a rather flippant remark 相当轻浮的话flippant about You shouldn’t be flippant about such things. 这样的事情你不应该轻率。 —flippantly adverb —flippancy noun [uncountable] This is no time for flippancy. 这个时候容不得轻率行事。
Examples from the Corpus
flippant• He did not mind being flippant about New York, but disliked to hear any one else take the same tone.• Kalb gave a flippant answer to the question.• That's not a flippant answer.• Under that flippant attitude he liked to show at Park Crescent was a mind like quicksilver.• If I am flippant, it's perhaps because nearly all these books are awkward about the limitations of psychology.• People ask me if I'm related to him, and my answer is usually a flippant "No, but I wish I were."• This consideration was not a flippant one.• Sorry if that sounded flippant or heartless - it wasn't meant to be.• You're not really ridiculing the anger I experience at your flippant pseudo-feminist attitude.• Despite the slightly flippant tone I have adopted, this essay is based on hard science.Origin flippant (1600-1700) FLIP1flip·pant adjectiveChineseSyllable
not other that serious being about Corpus something
flippant
flip‧pant /ˈflɪpənt/
adjectivenot being serious about something that other people think you should be serious about:
a rather flippant remark
flippant about
You shouldn’t be flippant about such things.
—flippantly adverb
—flippancy noun [uncountable]:
This is no time for flippancy.
flip‧pant /ˈflɪpənt/
adjectivenot being serious about something that other people think you should be serious about: flippant about
—flippantly adverb
—flippancy noun [uncountable]: