All 6 Uses of
flippant
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Only Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, whose every thought since he had met Suzanne de Tournay seemed keener, more gentle, more innately sympathetic, noted the curious look of intense longing, of deep and hopeless passion, with which the inane and flippant Sir Percy followed the retreating figure of his brilliant wife.†
Chpt 6
- "La, man!" she replied flippantly, "how serious you look all of a sudden....Indeed I do not know if I WOULD render France a small service—at any rate, it depends upon the kind of service she—or you—want."†
Chpt 8flippantly = with an inappropriate lack of seriousness
- man," she said with a return of her assumed flippancy, "you are astonishing.†
Chpt 8flippancy = an inappropriate lack of seriousness
- my friend," she said, with the same assumed flippancy of manner, "then you are where you were before, aren't you?†
Chpt 10
- All along, Marguerite had been expecting it; she would not show fear, she was determined to seem unconcerned, flippant even.†
Chpt 10 *
- "It does seem simple, doesn't it?" she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, "when you want to kill a chicken ...you take hold of it ...then you wring its neck ...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple.†
Chpt 10flippancy = an inappropriate lack of seriousness
Definition:
showing an inappropriate lack of seriousness