Sunday, May 29, 2011

#508 flippant

flippant- marked by inappropriate levity; frivolous or offhand; impertinent; saucy

C17 from flip

flippancy, flippantly

There are levels to him that rise and fall as his emotions do, yet underneath the flippant is a deep guy with a good heart.

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