Sentence examples for say flippantly from inspiring English sources

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In what way? "It really was as simple as, if you make a promise keep it – what you might just say flippantly, someone else is taking very seriously.

"Some people I meet socially say flippantly, 'Are you still doing that?

"It's a very dangerous thing to look at someone deeply wounded and traumatized and say flippantly you should forgive". She acknowledges that justice can alleviate pain but believes healing sometimes also requires forgiveness.

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"To darn your socks," I said flippantly.

"I've got no bloody idea — sure," he said flippantly.

Asked what he learned from his suspension, Smith said flippantly, "Don't throw elbows".

Asked if he ate dinner with his family while growing up, the president said flippantly that he did -- "so long as my mother wasn't cooking".

"I'll let you change into your pretty little dress," Oprah says flippantly after their pre-interview chat, walking out of the room so Lohan can get ready for the day.

Your company owns the servers and the laptops and everything that's on them". Lee Seeham agrees that people still haven't grasped the fact that email is not the same as conversation: "things that people would have said flippantly on a telephone call are now even more flippantly stated in electronic communications, perhaps to one person or to dozens.

Then he said, flippantly, "It's become a little bit of, you know, 'I didn't get my homework done because Twitter changed their API.'" In fact, he said the changes at IFTTT had "absolutely nothing to do with any changes to our API".

"I'll have no problem putting my kids in daycare so I can work," I said flippantly.

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