Sentence examples for flippant use from inspiring English sources

Ness's story should prompt a reappraisal of the flippant use of phrases like "a bit OCD".

In a spectacle of racial catharsis, a parade of black guests went on Maher's HBO show to chastise him for his flippant use of the slur.

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.

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.

One standoff, which shall not be elaborated here, had to do with my flippant use of scholarly parenthetical in-text citations (Mourt, 1622) in a piece in which the works cited did not appear on what scholars call the Works Cited List.

During those early years of her career, Schumer made some jokes that have since come back to haunt her, most conspicuously her flippant use of a "dumb white girl" persona, in which guise she made a joke about all Hispanic men being rapists.

They get more flippant and use more unconventional backgrounds until at the end she says she's worked on the Alaska pipeline.

From flippant slur use to disturbing reenactments, you will get requests for things you never knew even existed.

It was too flippant, and used "yes" instead of her usual "yeah".

Lisa Doyle, head of advocacy for the Refugee Council, said: "When we are facing the greatest refugee crisis of our time, it is disappointing the Prime Minister is using flippant remarks to score political points.

In the 20th century the distinction between light and serious verse was obscured by the flippant, irreverent tone used by many modern poets, the nonsense verse of the Dadaists, Futurists, and Surrealists, and the primitivistic techniques of such writers as the Beat poets and E.E.