Flippant

(adj.) showing inappropriate levity .

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• He did not mind being flippant about New York, but disliked to hear any one else take the same tone. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The venerable Mother of the Republics is scarce a fit subject for flippant speech or the idle gossipping of tourists. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is rather too bad of Fred to repeat my flippant speeches to Mr. Farebrother. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• At length, in the darkness, came her voice, hard and indifferent: 'Very little indeed,' she said coldly, almost flippant. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• There he lay, unowned, unknown, exposed to the flippant curiosity of a French mob! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

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