Vocabulary Word
Word: flippant
Definition: lacking proper seriousness; Ex. flippant remarks about death; N. flippancy
Definition: lacking proper seriousness; Ex. flippant remarks about death; N. flippancy
Sentences Containing 'flippant'
But it may be pleaded for Jervas that a good deal of this rigidity is due to his abhorrence of the light, flippant, jocose style of his predecessors.
Nothing, unless indeed the coarse buffoonery of Phillips, could be more out of place in an attempt to represent Cervantes, than a flippant, would-be facetious style, like that of Motteux's version for example, or the sprightly, jaunty air, French translators sometimes adopt.
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