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单词 flippant
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flippant

adjective
/ˈflɪpənt/
/ˈflɪpənt/
(also informal flip)
(disapproving)
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  1. showing that you do not take something as seriously as other people think you should
    • a flippant answer/attitude
    • Sorry, I didn't mean to sound flippant.
    • You can’t afford to be flippant about such matters.
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryFlippant is used with these nouns:
    • remark
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    Word Originearly 17th cent.: from flip + -ant, perhaps on the pattern of heraldic terms such as couchant and rampant. Early senses included ‘nimble’ and ‘talkative’, hence ‘playful’, giving rise to the current use ‘lacking seriousness’.
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