Today’s “Word of the Day” is flippant and it is an adjective meaning “thoughtless, carefree, irresponsible, offhand, frivolous, superficial; disrespectful, irreverent, inappropriate, cheeky, playful”.
Example Sentence: Finance Secretary T.V. Somanathan hit out at global rating agencies’ comments about India… “I say this with a sense of seriousness and responsibility, not in a flippant way, that rating agencies do have double standards between emerging and non-emerging countries,…” Mr. Somanathan said, asserting that India had ‘one of the best’ debt-to-GDP ratios when compared with higher-rated countries.
This word is present in The Hindu article Rating firms have double standards, says Union Finance Secretary and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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