When it first appeared in the English language around the 17th century, casual and talkative meant mean. But over the years, it has developed a more negative connotation. Today, used frivolously to describe a blasphemous© attitude or comment in a situation that requires seriousness. Make a casual comment about your friend`s mother and chances are they`ll be offended. This casual remark released the tension, and the driver cautiously stepped out and looked at the bare hub. The original films, on the other hand, had a slightly more casual side, and they never really tried to be comforting like the afterlife. Ali Gharib later said he realized the comments were frivolous and irresponsible. These were flippant quotes that actually gave their opponents a problem for hitting the ground. Rangel has often been flippant on the way to the campaign — once pulling out an iPad to answer a question during a televised debate. This has manifested itself in sometimes frivolous, sometimes cruel responses to the high rates of infection and death among unvaccinated Americans. He seems relentlessly bespectacled – even berating in his casual sides.

Does casualness have a positive or negative connotation? Lucian attaches an understandable meaning to these casual swearing and presents Socrates as a justification for their use. Hadria was incorrigibly frivolous at the idea of banishing important local issues. He had already encouraged himself when Professor Theobald said something flippant about Mrs. Temperley. To put it wrong, it would be as frivolous as people twiddling their thumbs with their stream of tweets. His expression was quite serious, but his tone was sharp – even casual. If a parent reprimands a teen for missing a curfew or dropping a test and the teen says, “It doesn`t matter,” you might say the teen is flippant. His response was casual to the point of sarcasm and disrespect. At the risk of sounding too frivolous, I`d like to put a good word on books that contribute to what Samuel Johnson called “the gaiety of nations” and “the public store of harmless pleasure.” It is believed that Flippant comes from flip, which in turn is a supposed imitation of the sound of a flip. The first meanings of the adjective are “agile” and “flexible”. One can be frivolous not only on one`s feet, but also in language – that is, their words flow easily. Such casualness was initially seen as a good thing; However, people who speak freely can sometimes seem too talkative and even outrageous.

The positive feeling of casualness is gone, but the feeling of “disrespectful” still flows. Meanwhile, the real Angela Merkel was, predictably, less frivolous than her fake Twitter lookalike. When Outside magazine editor Alex Heard tweeted that I had made one of my own, my response was arrogant and reckless. Music theme by Joshua Stamper 2006©New Jerusalem Music/ASCAP Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your go-to guide to problems in English.