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Definition of Flippant
1. Adjective. Showing inappropriate levity.
Definition of Flippant
1. a. Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
2. n. A flippant person.
Definition of Flippant
1. Adjective. (archaic) glib. ¹
2. Adjective. (chiefly dialectal) nimble; limber. ¹
3. Adjective. Lacking respect or seriousness, showing levity; pert. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flippant
1. impudent [adj] - See also: impudent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flippant
Literary usage of Flippant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hints on Advocacy: Conduct of Cases Civil and Criminal. Classes of Witnesses by Richard Harris (1884)
"THE flippant WITNESS. When a witness comes into the box with what is commonly
called a " knowing " look, and with a determined pose of the head, ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"In "The Sheep- folds, " he is in his most flippant mood, and yet the purport of
it is to prove that there is " a dead silence on the part of the Church on ..."
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