(a.) Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
(a.) Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant.
(n.) A flippant person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ohler’s book may well irritate some historians; he makes flippant remarks and uses chapter titles such as “Sieg High!” and “High Hitler”.
(2) From flippant offensive comments about women to serious allegations of assault from those he has encountered through his relationships and career, Trump stands accused of misogyny to a degree that has not been seen in mainstream American politics for decades.
(3) This week, after an article in the Mail on Sunday detailed the prejudices he had expressed, Fury made what he calls flippant threats in a video interview against the journalist, Oliver Holt.
(4) The Zappa statue was audaciously suggested by local artists in 1992, as a slightly flippant test of their country's newfound democratic freedoms; to their surprise, the authorities called their bluff.
(5) Lewis, often all too ready with a flippant remark, suggested that Countrywide's highly unpopular chief executive, Angelo Mozilo, could go away and "have some fun" with the proceeds.
(6) However, when the remark was repeated in another newspaper, he contact the author to say that he has no reason to think Cook was murdered and put the remark down to a "flippant comment".
(7) As the Queens Park Rangers manager's first taste of the play-offs was a forgettable, fractious affair, the Champions League and the Championship felt worlds apart, even if Redknapp, ever ready with a flippant one-liner, pretended to disagree.
(8) I was 13, watching the news with my parents, and flippantly said to my dad: "When they catch that monster they should string him up."
(9) Flippantly, I ask, isn't the pay so low it amounts to charitable work?
(10) It is, for instance, a lot of work; I don't mean that flippantly.
(11) This professionally flippant, slyly populist voice, accepting of kitsch and able to rework it into unintentional comedy, has become the default style not only of TV reviewers but also of viewers.
(12) I don’t just walk away when they say they’re going to die, to end their life … It’s not a flippant exchange, but it’s not in any way a doctor-patient involvement,” he said.
(13) Malala's courage and dignity come through strongly in a picture that is unexpectedly relaxed, almost flippant, given the circumstances.
(14) Hunt said today: "I made a flippant comment which I'm sure will be carved on my epitaph.
(15) Reading Kelsey Osgood’s memoir How To Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia , I came across yet another label, wannarexia, often used by eating disorder sufferers to disparagingly describe someone who actively and flippantly seeks out an eating disorder.
(16) Earlier he flippantly had thanked the BBC for his opportunity.
(17) Flippant remarks such as those you chose to use today only serve to reinforce the gap in understanding.
(18) He squirms into a shrug that indicates he's being both flippant and serious.
(19) Miami Beach--or "God's Waiting Room" as some have flippantly named it--has an overwhelming number of elderly people living on low incomes.
(20) The same year, in a flippant example of the use of the technology, an American billionaire reportedly paid a cloning expert $5m to recreate his favourite pet collie.
Wisecrack
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Billy Connolly wisecracking about Iraq hostage Ken Bigley?
(2) It's not hard to picture her, dodging the autograph-hunters, wisecracking at the tombstones, seizing life while she can.
(3) Empson, unforgettable as wisecracking Jamaican gossip Mrs Aphrodite in the Theatre Royal ska musical The Big Life in 2004, is mouthwatering casting as the Queen.
(4) Almost exactly the same gag features in a surviving Roman joke book: the Philogelos (or Laughter Lover ), a collection of wisecracks probably compiled in the fourth or fifth century AD.
(5) Outside of the octagon, Bisping possesses the demeanour of an oversized Ricky Hatton - all mischievous grins, wisecracks and gentle ribbing of his sparring partners.
(6) He plays a wisecracking badass called Snow who's tasked to rescue the president's daughter from a giant space prison overrun by its violent inmates.
(7) He responds to serious criticism by a biting wisecrack or diversionary personal attack.
(8) Tell that to Tessa, the 17-year-old heroine of Ol Parker's film Now Is Good, whose attitude is more rage against the dying of the light, while wisecracking.
(9) And it's not only the comedians who are being scrutinised – in May of this year, actress Jennifer Lawrence was criticised for her wisecrack about breaking out her "rape scream" for a director she admired.
(10) Bitcoin's crash is less of a currency crisis than an opportune moment for internet wisecracks.
(11) Feel free at this point to wonder aloud whether Gianfranco Zola has been hired as a player rather than manager and to make hilarious wisecracks about imminent swoops for Bruno Conte, Gigi Riva and Sophia Loren.
(12) Then there’s The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea , a film starring and produced by Jessica Biel, about a widower who teams up with a wisecracking girl (Williams; who else?)
(13) The machine is not about to write nuanced profiles or wisecracking think pieces.
(14) He continued in the same wisecracking vein opposite Jane Russell in two spoof Westerns, The Paleface (1948), in which he was a correspondence-school dentist, and Son Of Paleface (1952) where, having caused derision among cowboys in a saloon by ordering milk, Hope quickly adds "in a dirty glass".
(15) As well as the ubiquitous wisecracks, Twitter suits fast-breaking news snaps and statistics and so works well on results night.
(16) The line narrowly edged out an Alex Horne wisecrack: "I used to work in a shoe-recycling shop.
(17) This year's films that no-one wanted to see Read more Matt Damon’s turn as a wisecracking astronaut who finds himself stranded on Mars helped The Martian reclaim the top spot in its fourth week of release with a solid $15.9m (£10.3m), which now gives it a total of $166.4m.
(18) went one of the many wisecracks circulating on the internet after it was revealed that the Chelsea and England captain had failed in an attempt to gag reporting of his personal life.
(19) Just last week he was to be found wisecracking with his tormentors from the mainstream media and pouring them drinks at the party’s Christmas get-together.
(20) A 30th anniversary sequel to Raymond Briggs's beloved tale, its arrival brings grave fears of a sausage-fingered "reimagining", with wisecracking canine sidekicks, airborne high-fives and the unveiling of Olly Murs's new single, Flyin' (Don't Melt Tonight), taking a CGI shovel to a nation's memories.