adv.轻率地,没礼貌地
How can you treat me so flippantly!
你怎么能对我这样轻薄!
He answered carelessly and flippantly.
他回答的时候漫不经心,没当回事。
He answered the reporters'questions flippantly; this cannot be airily explained to your children.
他轻率地回答了记者的问题; 这个不能随便说给孩子听.