flippant

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No more did he like the flippant, almost cruel way in which she referred to Lady Emily's illness.

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  1. adjective Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness; pert.
  2. adjective Archaic Talkative; voluble.

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  • Even though the words were flippant, his tone was anything but. —  Hooper, Kay - Whisper of Evil
  • George Henry Lewes was gross and flippant, and he could not see it; Branwell's friend, Mr. Grundy, was Branwell's friend, and he missed it. —  The Three Brontes
  • That sounds a bit flippant, and actually, it's not meant to be. —  ChallengingDestiny#24:August2007
  • He appeared to be flippant, his questions almost without deliberation. —  XXXX
  • With a flippant, adolescent "I'm God, I make the rules?" —  Code Monkey Ramblings
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  1. Probably from flip.

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  1. With suffix -ant, as if of Latin origin, but due to the Middle English present participle suffix -and, -ende (from Anglo-Saxon -ende: see -ing); apparently resting on flip, but prob. from Icelandic fleipa, or fleipra, babble, prattle, fleipr, n., babble, tattle, = Swedish dial. flepa, talk nonsense.
 

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