Definitions for flippant

flippant flip·pant

Spelling: [flip-uh nt]
IPA: /ˈflɪp ənt/

Flippant is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 203 anagrams from letters in flippant (afilnppt).

Definitions for flippant

adjective

  1. frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity:
  2. Chiefly Dialect. nimble, limber, or pliant.
  3. Archaic. glib; voluble.

Origin of flippant

1595-1605; apparently flip1 + -ant

Examples for flippant

When the editor of Outside magazine, Alex Heard, tweeted that I had made an ass of myself, my response was arrogant and flippant.

It never was safe, even in the quietest times, to be flippant with Crossan.

Here is a subject which even the flippant cannot long ignore.

She turned away instantly, with a flippant lift and drop of both hands.

It was a flippant, vulgar book, the outcome of a flippant, vulgar mind.

Ali Gharib said after the fact that he realized the comments were flippant and irresponsible.

The captain was, in his opinion, altogether too flippant and jolly.

Every one laughed at his jokes, but to me they seemed superficial and flippant.

"Then leave it to Him," was the flippant answer; and Joseph drained his glass.

He seems implacably bespectacled—admonitory even in his flippant asides.

Word Value for flippant
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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