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Meanings of flippancy in anglès

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Inappropriate levity.

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        Usage of flippancy in anglès
        1
        And it will save me from all flippancy in my religious life.
        My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
        2
        Before his growing earnestness she resorted quickly to the defence of flippancy.
        The Wheel of Life
        3
        Neither was there the flippancy that a shallow woman might have manifested.
        Nature's Serial Story
        4
        He found it hard, however, to imitate the flippancy of her tone.
        The Cinema Murder
        5
        She is above that affectation of brilliancy which is often mere flippancy.
        George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philoso...
        6
        Sir John apologized for his flippancy, and Whistler replied: About a day.
        Whistler Stories
        7
        When she felt deeply on any subject her father's flippancy annoyed her.
        The Fruit of the Tree
        8
        The captain had no time for Leo's flippancy, pressing his demands:
        Agent 6
        9
        This colors the tone of my voice, which causes Sukum to suspect flippancy.
        The godfather of kathmandu
        10
        But the difference between this tone and Wilde's carefully nurtured flippancy was astonishing.
        The Guardian
        11
        Yet beneath the surface flippancy Nan could read a genuine remorse and self-reproach.
        The Moon out of Reach
        12
        His flippancy had put the seal of completeness upon her anger.
        The Perils of Pauline
        13
        There was an earnestness that robbed the question of any flippancy.
        The Spinners' Book of Fiction
        14
        It is this incorrigible flippancy of which I have to complain.
        An Unsocial Socialist
        15
        She shot the thing at me with a manner suspiciously near to flippancy.
        Ruggles of Red Gap
        16
        By our own time even the flippancy has become a platitude.
        The New Jerusalem
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