0 in a way that is not serious about a serious subject, in an attempt to be funny or to appear clever: --
Perhaps we, in the profession, more than those outside—but probably the public too—are apt to regard divorce somewhat light-heartedly and flippantly.
But there is no doubt that the women's organisations did not treat it flippantly.
I do not make this point flippantly though it has its comic aspects.
It is no good him talking flippantly, as he does, about absenteeism.
Much has been said at times, rather flippantly, about where the legal profession stands and where it should stand.
Too many men flippantly attribute it to "female provocation"or even"a perk of marriage".
One patient was arrested for speaking flippantly to the raiders.
I thought that she was flippantly irresponsible in her handling of the subject.
