Today's Word "flippant"
Published in Vocabulary
flippant \FLIP-uhnt\ (adjective) - Lacking proper seriousness or respect; showing inappropriate levity; pert.
"Betty made some flippant rejoinder, but as she watched him, she was not gay." -- Humphry Ward, 'Sir George Tressady'
Flippant probably comes from flip. The noun form is flippancy.
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