flippant

Synonyymisanakirja: flippant

flippant

1. kevytmielinen, typerä, nenäkäs.

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Riimisanakirja: flippant

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Käännökset: flippant

flippant suomeksi

nenäkäs

• epäkunnioittava lacking respect, epäasiallinen lacking seriousness

flippant englanniksi

• puhekieltä glib; speaking with ease and rapidity

• Barrow

It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech.

• puhekieltä nimble; limber.

• Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.

• Burke

a sort of flippant, vain discourse

• 1998, w:Sylvia Brownrigg|Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch

The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant, at least.

• 2000, Anthony Howard and Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman, March 13, 2000

In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine.

• 2004, w:Allen Carr|Allen Carr, The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, page 147

Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.

• puhekieltä Surprising.

• puhekieltä Worrying; scary.

• (present participle of)

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