Sentence examples for flippant with from inspiring English sources

"You're not being flippant with me, are you?" he said.

Yet Sebald is not flippant with his trivia - his digressions work hard to echo in miniature the work's larger concerns.

The reaction on both sides of the Atlantic has proved the point that you can't be flippant with abusive language and then just try to brush it off as part of a culture you know nothing about.

He is less brazenly flippant with facts than his brethren, mostly because he focuses on setting up liberal politicians for admittedly uncomfortable, but also unanswerable and aggressively beside-the-point questions – such as asking Mayor Mike Bloomberg last month if he would disarm his security detail as part of a ban on guns.

She was alarmed that other doctors in her hospital had been so flippant with my treatment.

The fear is that people will use the fact that the police can be called over social media to be flippant with it, calling the 5 0 every time someone disagrees with them or doesn't click 'Like' on their selfie, but then that's sort of the fear with every crime, isn't it?

Some of his poetry is cast in the form of deceptively flippant verse with playful rhymes.

"I think people understand that word as being very flippant, but with me it's very much like I'm simultaneously really committed to it and have a deep problem with it," he said.

Coverage of the city's Halloween festivities amplified the sentiment: people were "flippant," revelling with "zeal and verve," as they traipsed through Greenwich Village for the holiday's annual parade.

He took his goal beautifully in the 24th minute but six minutes later the flippant pass with which he gave the ball away to Danny Holla, followed by a laughably half-hearted attempt to regain it, suggested that he, unlike Cazorla for instance, has not yet developed into a player who can be trusted to exert a constant influence.

The fact that Cruz made the remark in a flippant fashion with a smile on his face makes it all the worse.