Usually means: Casually disrespectful, lacking proper seriousness.
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  1. flippant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. flippant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flippant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flippant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flippant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flippant, flippant: Wordnik
  7. flippant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flippant: Wiktionary
  9. flippant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flippant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flippant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Flippant, flippant: Dictionary.com
  13. flippant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flippant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Flippant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. flippant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. flippant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. flippant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. flippant: Free Dictionary
  20. flippant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. flippant: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. flippant: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. flippant: Rhymezone

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flippant: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flippant: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flippant: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See flippantly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
adjective:  (archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity
adjective:  (chiefly dialectal) nimble; limber.

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