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"flippantly" Definitions
  1. in a way that shows you do not take something as seriously as other people think you should

115 Sentences With "flippantly"

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People always say that flippantly, but I really have won.
" Mr. Maas said Germany did not take the decision "flippantly.
And I don't say that flippantly, I mean it for real.
As a drug-company researcher, Jane did not smoke pot flippantly.
Once people lose their anonymity, they won't treat their reservations so flippantly.
Millennials have also gotten flak for flippantly approaching the pandemic with memes.
How many others have flippantly Googled an old friend and discovered something ghastly?
Trump has also repeatedly and explicitly (if somewhat flippantly) encouraged attacks on protesters.
Mr. Woods spoke critically, if flippantly, of the story depicted in the film.
Great News does, and succeeds only because it brings up the idea so flippantly.
They were, one French diplomat suggests, made flippantly and little more than a "joke".
During his campaign, an old audio clip surfaced of him speaking flippantly about it.
"Yes please, Mr. Kurd," Trump responded flippantly, raising eyebrows and cackles across the world.
Heidi then was upset at Walter talking so flippantly about the news of his deployment.
"By the way, the women are always saving the men around here," she says flippantly.
In the video, Harmon begins by flippantly warning viewers that the content is explicit and offensive.
" Rather flippantly he responded to a post inquiring about Model Y timing with simply "March 15.
Throughout my childhood and adolescence, I'd heard my peers flippantly use the term "epilepsy" in jest.
Mesmerizing, easy on the eyes, an eyeful: I use these descriptors here neither lightly nor flippantly.
The seriousness of this violation of the people's will must not be flippantly underestimated or disparaged.
Remember, oh, about 100 words ago, when I flippantly referred to startup founders as 20-year-olds?
He later talked to reporters and said, somewhat flippantly, that he didn't know whom to trust anymore.
Harris is always nimble and flippantly funny, very good at capturing Olaf's dismissive sarcasm and rather casual sadism.
I didn't take the Felker name flippantly and any smearing of it isn't welcome on my page anymore.
She asked if I had been stressed lately, to which I at first flippantly responded, Sure, aren't we all!
But they are dealt with insouciantly, even flippantly – far more so than in something like Star Wars or Superman.
And Sobrino Vega also spoke flippantly of how the casualties from Hurricane Maria would play in Puerto Rican politics.
"I'm offended by the fact that people so cavalierly, and so flippantly, disregarded what's truly best for children," he said.
Politicians no longer can flippantly dismiss the need to protect public lands in the name of mining, oil and gas.
In case you missed it, he flippantly asked "Who the fuck is the EFF?" during a Twitter Q&A last week.
"I have been on television in the last 20 years, I wanted to let you know," Van Der Beek says flippantly.
But also, mostly, because Murray's passing came a day after president Trump again flippantly threatened a whole nation with nuclear annihilation.
I support the players who decided to sit because they are not doing so flippantly but because of a sincere conviction.
But a source familiar with Pelosi's thinking told The Hill's Melanie Zanona and Mike Lillis that her comment wasn't made flippantly.
People using that flippantly is frustrating, too, because this isn't just a news story to us, to our families, to our friends.
He responds to most of it flippantly, offering one-word answers to anyone shortsighted enough to ask a yes-or-no question.
The Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, another former Goldman banker, sent currency markets reeling recently when he talked flippantly about weakening the dollar.
When Thrush saw, he abruptly walked off, waving his hand flippantly, and left her alone to wait for her ride, she said.
Democrats, however, said they were shocked that the president of the United States would speak so flippantly about destroying a lawmaker's career.
Indeed, President Trump has made a habit of speaking flippantly about waging nuclear war with North Korea on Twitter in recent weeks.
It would've felt taboo to treat it flippantly and make weird, awkward jokes like I usually do, so I pulled back my banter.
They had Holden (Shane Coffey) make a heart attack joke to flippantly remind us about his heart condition during his first scene back?
Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist and vice-provost at the University of Pennsylvania, argued that case somewhat flippantly in The New York Times in 2015.
"I was sent there by the Clinton administration to meddle in their elections," he said, flippantly using language that alludes to the current controversy.
We're offered only unsatisfying morsels of exposition: news of cheerleaders taking cyanide pills at halftime; one character flippantly announcing he's finished going to funerals.
These aren't things you want to discuss flippantly, so take your time and try to tap into the creative potential of Mercury and Neptune.
MacLaine's 21944 mm film "The End" (21969) is particularly curious as it is flippantly concerned with people on the last days of their lives.
A few songs later, Salazar bulldozed his way through a feedback-drenched noise solo that flippantly wailed and crashed through his guitar's upper register.
She even talks flippantly about sex with Ali, who is clearly uncomfortable chatting with her new friend about the details of her sex life.
" Asked what he did after Trump pressed him to help hamstring Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, he replied, flippantly: "I went on vacation.
After a year of celebrities treating engagements flippantly, it appears that the second round of future spouses decided to take marriage double-y seriously.
This scene is pivotal: Greg flippantly announces that he's hoping to move to Barcelona to advance his career in an undisclosed, but clearly "serious," field.
In 2018, the Colombian-born gamer received criticism after flippantly saying she married a Canadian man to move to Canada, only to then divorce him.
Democrats who used the word flippantly in 19303 may not have been criticized at the time, but, like the president, they are being censured now.
Some traders flippantly remarked that it was like the Fed had a new dual mandate: Instead of "jobs and inflation" it was "Trump and Sanders."
Social media users responded with outrage and disbelief that the Uber CEO would respond so flippantly to the assassination and dismemberment of an American journalist.
"I've spent most of my adult life using sex to deflect from the screaming void inside my empty heart," she says flippantly but truthfully in therapy.
The movies take something that was flippantly used as a joke in the first film and turns it into something sad and wistful—Dory's short-term memory.
While few female leads of the 1980s had abortions, the subject was examined—sometimes explicitly, other times implicitly (if not flippantly)—in a handful of popular shows.
Bahlsen, the cookie maker, commissioned a study on its war years only last month, after a young heiress flippantly played down the company's use of forced labor.
Yet voters are unpredictable, and the skit ends with Fineman flippantly responding to a request for her vote by saying, "I don't know, Pete Buttigieg seems nice."
Defending the Second Amendment should not be done recklessly, opportunistically and flippantly: the right to bear arms isn't a campaign rally punchline, nor is it a casual threat.
Nor is the drinkable version something you should sip flippantly as you page through last year's SkyMall catalog, looking for a new automatic cereal dispenser for your dog.
In a now-infamous viral video, Trump visited the island shortly after the storm and flippantly tossed rolls of paper towels into a crowd of people seeking supplies.
The play also deepens because death, treated flippantly in the early scenes, now takes root in the characters' lives; the bare branches of Eno's trick structure sprout leaves.
The website is also considered something of a nightmare for women, with an editorial leadership that frequently and flippantly dismisses the online harassment generated by its dude-heavy audience.
There were more people within the party rejecting Donald Trump and his behavior, saying that they couldn't associate with somebody who spoke so flippantly and boastfully about assaulting women.
These indelicate, cropped, figurative drawings that flippantly disregard the niceties of polite portraiture make up only the minority of the hundreds of images that constitute the Fantasy Builder exhibition.
Even today race and racism is a charge that is incredibly powerful and for you to say automatically and some what I believe flippantly that Donald Trump is a racist.
This gaffe is just another on a never-ending list of public remarks that show the president and his team's tone deaf, misinformed, flippantly hateful approach to leading this country.
READ: Bloomberg's answer on sexual harassment were pretty stunning "None of them accuse me of doing anything other than maybe they didn't like the joke I told," he said flippantly.
Reporting on Latin America and sitting in news conferences with Mr. Chávez, Mr. Trump and Mr. López Obrador over the years, I have been cautious about using the populist label flippantly.
"Anyone who wants to assist Syria in protecting the Kurds is good with me, whether it is Russia, China, or Napoleon Bonaparte," Mr. Trump wrote almost flippantly on Twitter on Monday.
" There was another aspect to the experience: "I think that it did make me dig in a bit more when I'd see how flippantly people would treat people with my perspective.
In a time of ceaseless cynicism and well-deserved anxiety, when we quickly and flippantly write off the world and the people in it as a "dumpster fire," High Maintenance rises above.
Yet, during the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats blatantly and flippantly violated Senate norms, rules and traditions — and inflicted in the process considerable damage on the institution. Sen.
President Obama deported 2.5 million people from America under his administration's immigration policy, so we can only imagine how many marginalized people Trump will succeed in flippantly tossing aside like last week's trash.
Earlier this year, he pretended to sneeze when pronouncing the name of a Chinese executive whose last name is Chiu — pronounced "choo" — and has drawn criticism for speaking flippantly about Indians and Bulgarians.
And dude just picked up the computer with two hands, tore it in half and flippantly dropped it on the ground, fueled by the pure defiance that has marked his entire underdog career.
Donald Trump should be ashamed of himself to have flippantly said his "personal Vietnam" was avoiding a sexually transmitted disease while mocking those who served and died in his place in Vietnam or any war.
The unintentional call, in which Mr. Bookstaver was recorded flippantly admitting that he barely showed up for work and that he had finally been caught, according to The Post, resulted in his firing on Thursday.
"We're not playing flippantly with numbers, we are trying to design systems that best align the interests of the shareholders with the performance of the company, with the leadership qualities of the chief executive," he said.
I try not to say this flippantly, because I think it underplays it if you're flippant about it: I truly believe Donald Trump has a mental disease or disorder that puts this country at tremendous risk.
The tweet was meant as a joke, of course; anyone who follows my work knows I have a very live-and-let-live mentality, even if I can't help but flippantly poke the hornet's nest sometimes.
Because it was presented so flippantly, with another contestant laughing while narrating the events, I assumed there would be another, subsequent scene with Corinne and DeMario in the pool, one that was handled with more gravity.
While occasionally Mr. Serkin would perform Emanuel Bach's works in recital, he mostly played them for himself and recorded some pieces on his private label, which used inexpensive equipment and which he flippantly called Lousy Sound Discs.
It reframes the mythology and symbolism of Moore's "Watchmen" unsettlingly — but not, I think, flippantly — into racial commentary, in such a way that you might think that the original story was intended to grow into this all along.
Rather, he questioned whether Clinton associates are the people with ties to Russia and flippantly asked whether the former secretary of state ever apologized for accepting a heads-up about a debate question during the Democratic primary campaign.
Per custom, Mr. Cruz, whom some clerks recalled as speaking flippantly of the execution during those solemn nights, would circulate that memo to the other clerks on duty, who would then call their bosses to vote on the appeal.
The increasing popularity of the term has meant it is sometimes flippantly used as a catch-all synonym for the experience of "spacing out," reducing a serious disorder to a funny quip to retweet on the bus to work.
By making the snap decision to suspend previously sacrosanct US military exercises with South Korea, Trump weakened US and South Korean military readiness and sent a message to America's allies that US security guarantees could be flippantly negotiated away.
"I don't think it was done so flippantly to suggest Trump will not follow through with it, but there is an element of it being a negotiation tactic," said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia.
Even some of the most liberal white comedians I knew were doggedly supporting Bernie Sanders, while completely ignoring the steady rise of an obvious fascist movement, flippantly discounting him as a fool who would never make it to the Republican primaries.
But due to a combination of unprepared governments, delays in testing for the coronavirus, xenophobia, and general public confusion, meme-makers are treating the threat a little less flippantly than they did during other global scares of the recent past.
While I have flippantly called TCPA the "Total Cash for Plaintiffs' Attorneys Act," it is no laughing matter for industry, which has struggled to comply with a strict violation statute and little understanding from the regulatory agency charged with its enforcement: the FCC.
There's no telling how many people saw Kim's Instagram story (probably millions), but the way she and her sisters talk about their bodies and flippantly throw around the word "anorexic" could definitely be triggering for some people who struggle with eating disorders.
Perhaps his pal Jay Z told him it would be "fun," as Obama flippantly claimed, or maybe he wants to visit Ernest Hemingway's house, like other American tourists, or have a photo op with Fidel en famille, like the star-struck Pope.
And now, with fabricated news stories going viral every day, right- or left-leaning news articles flippantly being labeled "wrong" or "fake" by anyone who disagrees with them, librarians are doing what they have always done: showing people how to find facts.
What Twitter does with our tweets, DMs, and other data is a really important question, and in flippantly joking about it, Twitter is reminding all of us that, in the end, we don't really know—but don't worry, a new feature is coming.
We also need to stop maligning Trump and those around him as gauche creatures — how dare the first lady wear sequins or Kellyanne Conway perch so flippantly on an Oval Office couch — because that line of attack is trivial, gross and bound to backfire.
When it comes to issues like shuttering oil pipelines, the two groups often lock horns, with climate advocates claiming that oil workers need to stand down and shift to renewable energy and fossil fuel workers arguing that their economic future is being flippantly dismissed.
Biden, who wants to create a government-run alternative while preserving a role for private insurers, almost flippantly suggested that his administration could "easily" add a public option, a decade after the Obama administration was forced to retreat from the idea despite having full control of Congress.
You've probably read some of the coverage: The former Gawker editor who was solicited to buy a videotape of Hogan having sex with his then-best-friend's wife flippantly testified that celebrity sex tapes are newsworthy as long as they do not involve children under the age of 4.
Whenever I hear the rapper Jay-Z, in a guest verse on a song by his wife, Beyoncé, flippantly drone, "Eat the cake, Anna Mae"—a line from "What's Love Got to Do with It" that comes during one of the movie's most humiliatingly violent moments—I recoil.
"This is a very, very, very dangerous tool in the hands of young people, and I don't say that lightly or flippantly," Bevin said as he held a cellphone while delivering remarks Tuesday at an event organized by the Federal Commission on School Safety, the Courier Journal reported.
While many of these moments are crafted to be funny in their absurdity, they are not handled flippantly; these instances when we meet yet another head of the hydra that is racism ultimately accrue to humanize a narrator who has decided there is no honor in fighting the beast.
Starting with horrible news coverage of the thigh gap, then moving on to advertising campaigns that flippantly use violent, hypersexualized imagery of women to sell wares, and ultimately ending at a call to action — the video above makes a powerful case for how constant objectification affects women and girls in very sinister ways.
There's also the 2002 interview Timberlake did with Barbara Walters, during which she asked him about Britney Spears's virginity and whether they remained chaste in their relationship; in response, Timberlake laughed at the camera while flippantly saying, "Sure" (around the 7:40 mark): Timberlake's actions were much pettier than he'd made himself out to be.
Having seen many women of my generation flippantly reject medical care to give birth in their living rooms with midwives with little training, and others who feel guilt for years for having succumbed to C-sections, having "failed" at the ideal, natural birth, I wish that we could get over the medical-establishment-as-villain narrative.
It's the inevitable, stop-and-start uncertainty we would see from any couple in a relationship that's been dramatically reset: Jamie is still bothered by Frank and by missing the chance to raise his daughter, and Claire is bothered by Jamie's flippantly bringing his nephew, young Ian, into such dangerous work and lying to the boy's father about it.
Although the book's sequencing and chapter titles are cleverly concocted, and although the many timelines featured are full of compelling if not always very relevant events — and although it's imaginable that some readers might find Lankford's flippantly slangy prose style bearable for a few pages — I remain baffled that Melville House published this almost completely insufferable volume.
In the beginning of the episode, he responds flippantly to Luke's assertion that Danny's presence is itself a shield from some bad guys with guns: "Why do you always make things about my money," he asks, as if Luke is being somehow impolite by pointing out that a white billionaire is much safer in the world than a black man.
And though her forthrightness and rebellious "bad girl" image was readily received by fans (you might remember when she performed at the Super Bowl half-time show with Madonna and Nicki Minaj in 2012, and flippantly gave the camera the middle finger), it was swiftly criticised as sacrilegious when her behaviour didn't fit the Western agenda driven by powers that be.
"If a candidate is erratic and threatening; if a candidate traffics in prejudice, fears and lies on the campaign trail; if a candidate thinks that not paying taxes makes you smart, or that it's good business when people lose their homes; if a candidate regularly and flippantly makes cruel and insulting comments about women, about how we look, how we act — well, sadly, that's who that candidate really is," Mrs.
I won't say I'm necessarily surprised by these comments—I know Michaels and Gerards; I have seen them in garden centers, resentful wives at their backs, clutching terra-cotta pots, wagging their fingers, telling managers that the teenage assistants spoke to them flippantly—but I will say simply that their comments are a bit rich, considering all the ridiculous things that men like this, who believe their personal comfort should be everyone's primary concern.

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