flippant
pronunciation
UK [ˈflɪpənt]
US [ˈflɪpənt]
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- adj.
- 轻薄的,轻浮的
- 无礼的
- 油头滑脑
- 轻口薄舌
Word Origin
flippant 轻率的
来自flip, 轻率的,鲁莽的。
Synonym
Example
- 1. This is not as flippant as it may sound , but an important issue for business , technology and even geopolitics .
- 这个问题并没有表面上看起来那么轻率,而是一个重要的商业、技术甚至是地缘政治问题。
- 2. Mr cassano was even blunter , telling investors in august 2007 that " without being flippant " the company could not envisage a scenario that would " see us losing $ 1 in any of those transactions " .
- 卡萨诺更直言不讳,他在2007年8月告诉投资人说,“毫不轻率地说”,公司想不出“我们在所有那些交易中亏损1美元”的情形。
- 3. I don 't want to seem flippant when I talk about the sex .
- 我不想在谈论性的时候显得过于轻浮。
- 4. His flippant remarks only made the judge angrier .
- 他轻率的评论只是让法官更加愤怒。
- 5. In fact , says mr gudkov of levada , this self-mockery was not a reasoned rejection of the soviet system ; it was playful and flippant .
- 勒瓦达中心的古德科夫认为,实际上这种自我嘲讽并不是一种对苏联体系的理性否决,它带有戏谑轻浮的色彩。
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