| 词汇 | flippant |
| 释义 | flippant adjective uk /ˈflɪp.ənt/ us /ˈflɪp.ənt/(UKinformalflip) not serious about a serious subject, in an attempt to be funny or to appear clever: 轻率的；浮夸的 a flippant remark/attitude轻率的言论／态度 It's easy to be flippant, but we have a serious problem to deal with here.油嘴滑舌容易，但我们有正经问题要解决。 I think she just thought I was being flippant.我想她只是认为我态度轻率。 Not showing careful thought airily airiness airy bang something out bash bash something out frivolously ill-conceived incaution incautious incautiously off the cuffidiom pat preconceived shallow shallowly shallowness shoot from the hipidiom unreflective unthinking Related wordsflippancy flippantly flippant | American Dictionaryflippant adjective us/ˈflɪp·ənt/(infmlflip, us/flɪp/) showing or having a rude attitude of not being serious esp. by trying to be amusing when most people expect you to be serious: We had lost thousands of dollars, so we did not appreciate his flippant remark about "better luck next time." Examples of flippantflippant Without being flippant, this reviewer would reply that they were largely being determined on the field of battle - something that overshadowed everything else. Now this sounds flippant, this not getting things serviced. This new art was only apparently flippant and friendly. Jung's handling of persona questions seems somewhat flippant. He was very flippant in parts of his speech and completely callous in other parts of it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would be difficult to devise a more callous and flippant answer than that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I must not become flippant, because this is an important subject. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is not a laughing matter to be treated in the flippant tone that she has adopted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all know how easy it is to use such a flippant phrase, and how difficult it is to achieve it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I certainly did not mean that in any flippant way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He treated the argument in a very flippant way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not making a flippant interjection in the debate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I also know that error is in its nature flippant and compendious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have too little time to follow those flippant paths. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The point, of course, is that it is extremely difficult to define what is flippant and what is grave criticism. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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