The truth is, the members indulged in too flippant a tone of discussion.

Peregrine stumbled on the name, and for an instant lost his flippant tone.

The paper has often maintained a flippant yet humorous tone.

He smiled at her flippant tone, but his eyes were shadowed.

At the start, the Guide is merely an information resource, although one with a distinctly flippant and exuberant tone.

Despite the slightly flippant tone I have adopted, this essay is based on hard science.

At the same time, his programme note for the first performance took a defiantly flippant tone.

"So be it," Murdoch replied, in an almost flippant tone.

"I can only assume this isn't a social call," he said, trying to maintain the flippant but polite tone.

The younger notary, with his flippant tone, seemed on a lower plane.