Associations to the word «Flippant»

Wiktionary

FLIPPANT, adjective. (archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity
FLIPPANT, adjective. (chiefly dialectal) nimble; limber.
FLIPPANT, adjective. Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.

Dictionary definition

FLIPPANT, adjective. Showing inappropriate levity.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope