Shameless vs Flippant - What's the difference?
shameless | flippant | Related terms |
having no shame, no guilt nor remorse over something wrong; immodest; unable to feel disgrace
(archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity
* Barrow
nimble; limber.
Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
* Burke
* 1998 , , The Metaphysical Touch
* 2000 , Anthony Howard and Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman, March 13, 2000
* 2004 , , The Easy Way to Stop Smoking , page 147
Shameless is a related term of flippant.
As adjectives the difference between shameless and flippant
is that shameless is having no shame, no guilt nor remorse over something wrong; immodest; unable to feel disgrace while flippant is (archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity.shameless
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(en adjective)Derived terms
* shamelessly * shamelessnessflippant
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Adjective
(en adjective)- It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech.
- a sort of flippant , vain discourse
- The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant , at least.
- In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine.
- Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.