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Definition of Flippantly
1. Adverb. In a flippant manner. "This cannot be airily explained to your children"
Definition of Flippantly
1. adv. In a flippant manner.
Definition of Flippantly
1. Adverb. In a flippant manner ¹
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Definition of Flippantly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flippantly
Literary usage of Flippantly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"... measured solemnity, and round every period with the same polished smoothness.
Addison's talk learnedly or lightly, think deeply, or prate flippantly, ..."
2. A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound and ...by Thomas Sheridan by Thomas Sheridan (1790)
"FLINTY, fiint'-ya Made of flint, ; hard of heart, inexorable. flippantly,
flip'-pant-Jv ad. In a flowing prating way. ..."
3. Of Much Love and Some Knowledge of Books by Henry Eduard Legler, Caxton Club (1912)
"More flippantly, but less venomously, Thomas Moore has suggested that A Persian
Heaven is easily made:— 'Tis but black eyes and lemonade. On the other hand, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"SHELLEY. Flip. Flips away like whalebone from the finger. — RD BLACKMORE.
flippantly. flippantly, as a boy not yet grown bashful. — XENOPHON. Flirt (Noun). ..."
5. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1885)
"Some of the more recent of its graduates may talk flippantly of the religion of
the college, but their underlying convictions will soon come to the surface ..."
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