Crossword clues for flippancy
flippancy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flippancy \Flip"pan*cy\, n.[See Flippant.] The state or quality of being flippant.
This flippancy of language.
--Bp. Hurd.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1746, from flippant + -cy.
Wiktionary
n. A disrespectful levity or pertness especially in respect to grave or sacred matters.
WordNet
n. inappropriate levity [syn: light-mindedness]
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.