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Impertinence, 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 ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A disrespectful levity or pertness especially in respect to grave or sacred matters.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1746, from flippant + -cy .
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.