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Six example sentences with flippant, each labelled with its topic.
A flippant reply to the customer complaint spread across social media before the company had drafted a real answer.
Business
The lead's flippant one liner during the funeral scene wrecks the mood the whole film had spent an hour building.
Movies
His flippant remark about the opposing coach followed him all season, quoted on every away banner in the league.
Basketball
The candidate's flippant answer about the flood victims played on every news channel for a week.
Politics
The judge warned the defendant that another flippant comment from the stand would be treated as contempt.
Law
Wilde's heroes are flippant about everything, dismissing marriage, money, and bad news with the same lifted eyebrow.
Literature
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