flippant-faced

Updated: January 17, 2026

The third condemned, although whimpering, had far more grit than I anticipated; he was inquisitive and flippant-faced, and looked at the noose flaunting before him, and the people gathered below, and the haggard face of Atzerott, as if entirely conscious and incapable of abstraction. Harold would have enjoyed this execution vastly as a spectator.

George Alfred Townsend - The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth