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Inappropriate levity
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flippancy
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Word definitions for flippancy in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flippancy \Flip"pan*cy\, n.[See Flippant .] The state or quality of being flippant. This flippancy of language. --Bp. Hurd.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. inappropriate levity [syn: light-mindedness ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1746, from flippant + -cy .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A disrespectful levity or pertness especially in respect to grave or sacred matters.
Usage examples of flippancy.
Thus it differed widely from the flippancy and frivolity of the Deists of France.
For the Kapok Kid, flippancy was a creed, derogation second nature: seriousness was a crime and anything that smacked of adulation bordered on blasphemy.
He was still loquacious, still given to flippancy, to clever self-effacements, to chumminess, but he seemed a more sober person than he had ever been.
His curtness she could meet and match with her own flippancy, guarding herself as with a fencers foil.