All 7 Uses of
flippant
in
Of Human Bondage
- There was no doubt that he was a fine scholar, and he was engaged on a work which was quite in the right tradition: he was writing a treatise on the trees in Latin literature; but he talked of it flippantly, as though it were a pastime of no great importance, like billiards, which engaged his leisure but was not to be considered with seriousness.†
Chpt 15-16
- There was never here any of that flashing humour which made the other masters suspect him of flippancy.†
Chpt 17-18 *
- Philip was silent too, for he did not quite know what to say that would fit the circumstance; and he was terribly afraid that, if he said something flippant, Miss Wilkinson would break down before his uncle and make a scene.†
Chpt 35-36
- I think your flippancy is quite inane.'†
Chpt 51-52
- It was lucky that the turn of his mind tended to flippancy.†
Chpt 53-54
- "By Jove, if I weren't flippant, I should hang myself,' he thought cheerfully.†
Chpt 53-54
- He pictured himself rowing with her on the river on Sundays; he would take her to Greenwich, he had never forgotten that delightful excursion with Hayward, and the beauty of the Port of London remained a permanent treasure in his recollection; and on the warm summer afternoons they would sit in the Park together and talk: he laughed to himself as he remembered her gay chatter, which poured out like a brook bubbling over little stones, amusing, flippant, and full of character.†
Chpt 79-80
Definition:
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(flippant) showing an inappropriate lack of seriousness