Sentences with phrase «flippant comment»
A "flippant comment" refers to a remark or statement that is made casually or without much thought, often in a disrespectful or dismissive manner. Full definition
I recently told a friend that she didn't know what I'd been through after making flippant comments about me leaving.
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We saw this year's Olympic coverage threaded with a constant flow of flippant comments about rain and fog.
You're right, though, that my somewhat flippant comment about life expectancy topping out about about 30 or 35 is on the low side.
I figure most of the people who rattle off that kind of flippant comment are fine with babies dying and long as it is someone else's baby dying.
Only because I was bored and frustrated one night, I responded to his initial e-mail with some witty / flippant comment about that.
Sadly, it's not uncommon to hear of employees who have lost their jobs over flippant comments made via personal social media accounts.
He judged a book by it's title — and there was much in that book in need of robust critique, not a flippant comment.
It's a bit of a flippant comment by him about Chelsea trying to buy him.
Then, last week, a New York reporter tried to ask the «not - taking - questions governor» what he was going to do about the fact Niagara Falls has now lost revenue and is struggling and he... laughed... and then made some flippant comment about how Niagara Falls can pay «him» because he lost revenue too.
Alex Vitale, a sociology professor at Brooklyn College, told POLITICO New York, «I think his flippant comments about police stem not from any particular bias but from a lack of concern about propriety and independence.»
«People make these flippant comments that science is not reproducible.
She told us, «Jennifer had that life - changing experience all because of a flippant comment she made to a friend.»
What may seem like a flippant comment can often have a deeper subtext of casual racism.
I finished with a flippant comment along the lines of, «We really tried to keep the stories real.
It's one thing for someone to explain why they don't rate one of your projects, but far worse for someone to say a flippant comment that leaves no room for open dialogue.
Afterward, I was interviewed by the Frontier Centre, and they published my flippant comment about the juxtaposition of Mann's location.
Likewise the remainder of your flippant comments are shallow attempts, and haven't addressed the point.
During a break in the proceeding, the lawyer made a flippant comment related to the client's background in an ill - conceived attempt at humour.