As an attorney, I don't like people turning questions back to me, so I gave a flippant reply.
So young, so vulnerable, that he stopped the flippant reply before it reached his lips.
Stewart knew better than to give the flippant reply he had rehearsed on the way from the parade ground to the barracks.
A flippant reply rose to his lips, but even in his weakened state he had the good sense to bite it back.
After consulting with attorneys, Adrienne responded with a flippant reply.
She thought he might make a flippant reply, but he answered her seriously.
She wanted to make some flippant reply, some casual remark that they could both laugh away, but it wouldn't work.
His defenses began to build and he braced himself for a flippant or insensitive reply.
About to make a flippant reply, she checked herself and instead gave him the exact truth.