Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word FLIPPANTLY

Definitions of FLIPPANTLY

1. In a flippant manner.

Examples of Using FLIPPANTLY in a Sentence

• In 1906, when Great Britain launched HMS Dreadnought, Williams flippantly proposed that the name of an American battleship being built in response at the urging of Theodore Roosevelt be changed from Michigan to Skeered o' Nothin and that the ship's first mission be to challenge Dreadnought to a duel off the coast of Long Island, Roosevelt's home, with Roosevelt and most of his cabinet on deck.
• Among its policy recommendations are the advocacy of free trade, an opposition to price controls, an opposition to monetary inflation, and an opposition to fiscal policy, such as stimulative governmental expenditures, arguing:

  There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: 'In the long run we are all dead.

• Brainiac 5 commented that he finds it aggravating that the ability to negate one of the fundamental forces is in the hands of someone who treats things so flippantly.
• After she puts an ad in the paper asking for donations towards Nemanja's surgery, Marija is faced with a petulant student who, after not heeding the teacher's request to put away her handheld during class, flippantly asks Marija in front of everybody to give her private English lessons.
• The security men are too flippantly treated; Whitehall, however cynically viewed, is found to know best; and whatever questions of scientific independence the film might seem to be raising in its dialogue are dodged for a pistols and fisticuffs climax and a comic chimpanzee fade-out.
• That night, Roman returns from his first day of management training and flippantly reports his progress to Gerri; he suddenly finds himself sexually aroused when she scolds and belittles him, and Gerri plays along with his fetish while he masturbates.
• Steve Bennett of the website Chortle reviewed the 2016 pilot positively, writing that Akingbola has an "innate authority", and the panelists "deliver as dependably and flippantly as any of the big panel shows".

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