When a parent scolds a teenager for missing a curfew or blowing off a test and the teen snaps back, "Whatever," you could say the teen is being flippant. His reply was casual to the point of sarcasm and disrespect.
Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
Adjective S.
showing inappropriate levity
a.
Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease
and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
a.
Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or
consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant.
n.
A flippant person.
Flippant
It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech.2.
To put flippant scorn to the blush.
A sort of flippant, vain discourse.
Flippant
Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
A flippant person.
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