The phrase "flippant of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means casually disrespectful or lacking in seriousness. It is usually used to describe someone's attitude or behavior. Example: "She was flippant of the teacher's authority, often making snarky comments during class."
Charlie Sheen has done far worse, and his "far worse" involves repeated physical altercations with other human beings and a series of flippant dismissals of the causes and consequences of those actions.
In the world of big data, flippant sharing of information, and abundance of search technologies, is there a way data can be managed by the individual to ensure compliance with fundamental freedoms, rights and laws?
Ness's story should prompt a reappraisal of the flippant use of phrases like "a bit OCD".
The damage of such flippant use of antibiotics is that it can select for drug-resistant strains by wiping out the good bacteria in a patient's gut, allowing other troublesome bugs such as Clostridium difficile to colonise.
The pussyhat, too, has been ridiculed: for its origin in a repellent Trump slur, for its possible exclusion of transgender women, for its flippant embrace of the racial connotations of pink.
He does give a flippant summary of the story of "Daphnis et Chloé," with colorful illustrations.
This allusion to athletic prowess is not flippant: much of our understanding of lactate production in humans derives from exercise physiology [ 9], a paradigm that may not be wholly applicable to critical illness.
TO paraphrase Oscar Levant, there's a thin line between good writing and bad writing, and Neal Pollack erases it forever with "The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature," his flippant sendup of the literary elite.
One particularly problematic aspect of the widespread and flippant use of the word "rape" is that it contributes to the idea that sexual violence is an acceptable topic about which to joke.
