How to Use flippant in a Sentence

flippant

adjective

• He made a flippant response to a serious question.
• The episode’s flippant tone and use of stereotypes rubbed many viewers the wrong way.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
• Trixie nailed the flirty, flippant vibe of the song, while Pearl just looked mad the whole time.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Mar. 2022
• It’s much harder to be flippant about an idea that didn’t work.
  — Patrick Mullane, Fortune, 21 June 2017
• Or maybe, at the risk of seeming too flippant, that comma should be a colon.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2023
• The breakout star of the series was sassy, smart, urbane and flippant Lance Loud.
  — Tim Sommer, Billboard, 25 June 2019
• But when asked about one of their own, Psaki went flippant.
  — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 12 Mar. 2021
• This doesn’t mean that Christians should be flippant about death.
  — Daniel Darling, National Review, 10 Apr. 2020
• The video then shows all the flippant ways younger employees sign emails to their older boss.
  — Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• And not to sound too flippant, but that sounds really bad.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2017
• The book is a little cold, a little nasty, a little flippant.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• Waller-Bridge found a way to be clever and flippant and yet moving in her loneliness.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2019
• Wilcox and Graves described it in interviews as a flippant comment, fired off in the heat of the moment.
  — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Jan. 2024
• Axiom itself has been more flippant about word usage in the past.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
• Honor Among Thieves is not without its flippant pleasures, most of them courtesy of the cast.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 11 Mar. 2023
• For me, the flippant dialogue muddied the tone around Bela’s assault.
  — Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2021
• Drug use is flippant and rampant, the music is big and gaudy, and none of the shots were actually filmed on the island or in its clubs.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 26 June 2018
• Later in the episode, Seema tells Carrie how hurtful this flippant comment was to her.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2022
• At first the flippant tone of some of these scenes seems a bit off, but the movie (full of narrative curves) eventually makes tonal sense.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Sure, TikTok trends put a flippant and funny spin on it for the frustrated and betrothed.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2022
• The next-man-up mentality was going to play a role and make their approach feel flippant at times.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 19 Nov. 2020
• The outrage over Spencer’s flippant comments wasn’t because of young George’s status.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• And yet some critics have already pounced on the premise of the show, suggesting that the very concept is flippant and insensitive.
  — Daniel Arkin /, NBC News, 10 July 2018
• Musk is known for roiling markets with his sometimes flippant and ill-advised tweets.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2021
• Biden’s flippant answer was grossly mistaken, to say the least.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 16 July 2022
• Isabella posted a throwback photo and video of Olivia, one as kids and one of the once-flippant starlet dancing.
  — Fox News, 30 Sep. 2019
• Yet the stark and flippant phrasing of the chyron struck many critics as crossing a line into outright falsehood.
  — Jeremy Barr, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• Yet as idiosyncratic as the mixture can be, Horn is never flippant about her choices.
  — Celia Barbour, House Beautiful, 14 Sep. 2013
• Adam Goldman says this was a serious, not a flippant remark.
  — Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018
• One person on the boat apologized, while a classmate brushed it off with a flippant response when Local 10 asked him about the incident.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024