He seems implacably bespectacled—admonitory even in his flippant asides.
Ali Gharib said after the fact that he realized the comments were flippant and irresponsible.
When the editor of Outside magazine, Alex Heard, tweeted that I had made an ass of myself, my response was arrogant and flippant.
The taint of a flippant wit was common to all its members, and their assurance was unbounded.
She looked at him sternly as she spoke, as though defying him to be flippant in return.
You know how flippant, how 'fly-away,' he can be when the mood seizes him, how wholeheartedly he can play the fool.
Hurry and agitation were making her flippant, and Robert was nearer than she deemed.
"Please do not be flippant," said the voice from the rocking-chair, sadly.
Kathryn's voice betrayed her dislike of the flippant answer.
Sara is flippant when things are going along all right, but she knows when to buckle down and do what she's asked.
c.1600, "talkative;" 1670s, "displaying unbecoming levity," apparently an extended form of flip (v.). Shortened form flip is attested from 1847. Related: Flippantly.