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Meanings of flippancy in English

Catalan
alegria
Spanish
frivolidad

Inappropriate levity.

alegria
Synonyms
Examples for "light-mindedness"
Examples for "light-mindedness"
1
Beneath his smiling light-mindedness there was a surprising depth of .
Wizard and glass
2
Against social immorality or village light-mindedness he was relentlessly savage.
The Shuttle
3
He suffers from an illness of the mind-light-mindedness.
The new yorker
4
The natural light-mindedness of a healthy lad easily disposes of the problems which disturb the older mind.
Westways: A Village Chronicle
5
Why does he fall for light-mindedness?
Missy
Usage of flippancy in English
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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