Both Uses
flippant
in
Mrs. Warren's Profession
(Auto-generated)
- I advised you to conquer your idleness and flippancy, and to work your way into an honorable profession and live on it and not upon me.†
Act 1 *flippancy = an inappropriate lack of seriousness
- [He puts his hat and stick on the table, and perches himself with a vault on the clerk's stool, looking at her with every appearance of being in a specially restless, teasing, flippant mood]†
Act 4
Definitions:
-
(1)
(flippant) showing an inappropriate lack of seriousness
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)