flippantly

Adverb

Meaning

In a flippant manner.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

airily jauntily easily lightly humorously casually carelessly indifferently glibly giddily jestingly impertinently jokingly facetiously cavalierly
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Antonyms

badly sincerely acutely solemnly earnestly ardently
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Examples

Do not even flippantly badmouth anybody this week. Button it up. Tom Peters

he answered the reporters' questions flippantly Source: Internet

this cannot be airily explained to your children Source: Internet

At a meeting in Liverpool with relatives of those involved in Hillsborough in October 1997, he flippantly remarked "Have you got a few of your people or are they like the Liverpool fans, turn up at the last minute?" Source: Internet

Higgins flippantly recommends Doolittle to an American millionaire who has written to Higgins seeking a lecturer on moral values. Source: Internet

For starters, it can often be used flippantly, almost like a buzzword for a deeper-than-normal level of tiredness. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

flippance flippancy flippant flippantness flippase flipped