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be flippant
adjective
Glib; speaking with ease and rapidity
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Nobody pauses to be flippant.
The intention here is not to be flippant.
It is dangerous to be flippant about such things.
Not to be flippant, but radicals' devising ways to equip suicide bombers doesn't cut it.
"To be flippant, I am not that disappointed," the England boss said.
I found the artwork for Russell Shorto's cover story to be flippant and offensive.
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I'm being flippant.
I'm just being flippant.
Flores was not being flippant.
It's flippant and dead serious simultaneously.
The tone is flippant or mildly ironic.
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