FLIPPANT
\flˈɪpənt], \flˈɪpənt], \f_l_ˈɪ_p_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of FLIPPANT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Lively and talkative; impertinent; disrespectful; characterized by thoughtless speech, or pertness; trifling.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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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; speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; voluble and thoughtless; heedlessly pert; petulant. "It ill becomes one, while he bends under the weight of insuperable objections, to grow so exceedingly flippant."-Waterland.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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