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Flippant A Vocabulary Presentation Denotation of flippant • Extremely disrespectful, shallow, lacking in seriousness • Marked by extreme levity or casualness • Talkative Etymology of flippant • In 1605, an extended form of flip • Shortened form, flip, is attested from 1847 • Flip is a contraction of fillip, which is also held to be imitative • Flip was first used in 1950 as a term of excitement; flip one’s lid, meaning to go wild Examples from Writing • “In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine.” – Anthony Howard and Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman • “The conversations had grown more adult over the years--she was less flippant, at least.” – Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch • “Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.” – Allen Carr, Allen Carrs Easyway To Stop Smoking 10 things that are flippant • • • • • • • • • • Snide remarks Prudent people Insolent actions Superficial thoughts Inappropriate cartoons Disrespectful movies Shallow songs Discourteous cats Insubordinate children Impolite comments Flippant Political Action Works Cited “Flippant.” www.dictionary.com. dictionary, n.d. Web. 5 December 2009. <http://dictionary.reference.com/ browse/flippant> “Flippant.” www.etymonline.com. etymonline, n.d. Web. 5 December 2009. <http://www.etymonline.com/index.php? term=flippant> “Flippant.” www.wiktionary.org. wiktionary, n.d. Web. 5 December 2009. <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flippant> www.istanbulian.blogspot.com. Blogspot, n.d. Web. 5 December 2009. <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z2Mlf_q3fv0/SY1L5F 6jSwI/AAAAAAAABB0/xDDBRVUxE4M/s400/148954485 s.jpg>