Flippant
['flɪp(ə)nt] or ['flɪpənt]
解释:
(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.
巴纳比手打
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Voluble, fluent, glib, talkative, nimble of speech, of ready utterance.[2]. Pert, impertinent, saucy, malapert, forward, bold, impudent.
杜威手打
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Pert, forward, superficial, thoughtless, saucy, malapert
ANT:Flattering, servile, obsequious, accurate, considerate, deferential,complimentary, respectful
校对:赛克
解释:
adj. quick and pert of speech: thoughtless.—ns. Flipp′ancy Flipp′antness pert fluency of speech: pertness.—adv. Flipp′antly.
亚历克斯编辑
例句:
- He did not mind being flippant about New York, but disliked to hear any one else take the same tone. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- The venerable Mother of the Republics is scarce a fit subject for flippant speech or the idle gossipping of tourists. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- It is rather too bad of Fred to repeat my flippant speeches to Mr. Farebrother. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- At length, in the darkness, came her voice, hard and indifferent: 'Very little indeed,' she said coldly, almost flippant. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- There he lay, unowned, unknown, exposed to the flippant curiosity of a French mob! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
亚历克斯编辑