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flippantly

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flip·pant  (flpnt)
adj.
1. Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness; pert.
2. Archaic Talkative; voluble.
[Probably from flip.]
flippan·cy n.
flippant·ly adv.
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Adv.1.flippantly - in a flippant manner; "he answered the reporters' questions flippantly"; "this cannot be airily explained to your children"
airily
Translations
flippantly [ˈflɪpəntlɪ] ADV [answer, talk] → con poca seriedad
such words should not be used flippantly → esas palabras no deberían usarse con ligereza or ligeramente
flippantly [ˈflɪpəntli] adv [speak, answer] → avec désinvolture
flippantly
adv answer, say → leichtfertig; (= disrespectfully) → schnodd(e)rig (inf)
flippantly [ˈflɪpəntlɪ] adv (speak) → in modo poco serio
flippantly [ˈflɪpəntlɪ] adv (speak) → in modo poco serio


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He thought that he had already had time to lose his temper with Ivan, to show coolness to his brother, and to talk flippantly with Katavasov.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
There was no doubt that he was a fine scholar, and he was engaged on a work which was quite in the right tradition: he was writing a treatise on the trees in Latin literature; but he talked of it flippantly, as though it were a pastime of no great importance, like billiards, which engaged his leisure but was not to be considered with seriousness.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Contrasted with the inconceivable antiquity of this modest fossil, those other things were flippantly modern--jejune--mere matters of day-before-yesterday.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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