Flippant

a.	1.	Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative. It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech. - Barrow.
	2.	Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant. To put flippant scorn to the blush. - I. Taylor. A sort of flippant, vain discourse. - Burke.
n.	1.	A flippant person.

Adj.

1.

flippant - showing inappropriate levity Synonyms: light-minded

airy, bantering, belittling, biggety, bluff, booing, brash, careless, casual, catcalling, chaffing, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, cursory, degage, derisive, derisory, discourteous, dismissive, disregardant, disregardful, easygoing, facetious, facy, fleering, flip, fooling, forgetful, free and easy, fresh, frivolous, gally, gratuitous, grinning, heedless, hissing, hooting, impertinent, impudent, inconsiderate, indifferent, insouciant, irreverent, jeering, jocular, joshing, kidding, lazy, leering, light-hearted, malapert, mocking, nervy, oblivious, offhand, offhanded, panning, perfunctory, pert, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, reckless, regardless, respectless, ridiculing, roasting, saucy, scoffing, scornful, shallow, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, supercilious, superficial, tactless, taunting, teasing, thoughtless, twitting, uncalled-for, undiplomatic, unheedful, unheeding, unmindful, unprepared, unready, unserious, unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, wise-ass

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