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单词 flippantly
释义
flippantly
adverb
uk
/ˈflɪp.ənt.li/us
/ˈflɪp.ənt.li/
in a way that is notseriousabout aserioussubject, in anattemptto befunnyor toappearclever:
She was verytemptedtoanswerflippantly.
I would not make thatcommentflippantly.
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flippant
More examples
  • I do not say this flippantly, but withgenuineregret.
  • I make thepointflippantly, but there is aseriousissuehere.
  • "So, how much do youthinkI'mworth?" sheasked, flippantly.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not showing careful thought
  • airily
  • airiness
  • airy
  • bash
  • bashsomethingout
  • cuff
  • frivolous
  • frivolously
  • ill-conceived
  • incautious
  • incautiously
  • off the cuffidiom
  • preconceived
  • shallow
  • shallowly
  • shallowness
  • shoot from the hipidiom
  • thoughtless
  • unconsidered
  • unthinking
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(Definition offlippantlyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofflippantly

flippantly
The fact that subjects feel so strongly about their choices disconfirms the hypothesis that subjects choose randomly orflippantly.
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If we deal with such matters wantonly andflippantlywe are not merely betraying ourselves; we are betraying something greater than ourselves.
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I say that notflippantly, not as a laughing matter, but to illustrate the humiliation that we are facing today.
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Of course, publishers will notflippantlymake their choice to be tried by jury, with the possible penalty of imprisonment.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The matter was dismissed by him asflippantlyas that.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Those are not numbers that we can dismissflippantly; they are significant.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It was seen as an extra bulwark against a theatre beingflippantlychanged into something else.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I thought that she wasflippantlyirresponsible in her handling of the subject.
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One patient was arrested for speakingflippantlyto the raiders.
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Too many menflippantlyattribute it to "female provocation"or even"a perk of marriage".
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Much has been said at times, ratherflippantly, about where the legal profession stands and where it should stand.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It is no good him talkingflippantly, as he does, about absenteeism.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I do not make this pointflippantlythough it has its comic aspects.
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But there is no doubt that the women's organisations did not treat itflippantly.
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Perhaps we, in the profession, more than those outside—but probably the public too—are apt to regard divorce somewhat light-heartedly andflippantly.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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