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Meanings of such levity in English

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Usage of such levity in English
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I, however, was unable to respond with such levity.
English passengers
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No first-hand accounts of the grocer's daughter suggest that any such levity would be forthcoming.
The Irish Times
3
No one would have guessed that staid old Assembly Hall could lend itself to such levity.
Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School
4
And you take this, monsieur, with such levity.
Poor Relations
5
What am I to gather from such levity?
That Affair Next Door
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Madam, -Thank God for Mary Coughlan and Miriam Lord, they add such levity to this recession.
The Irish Times
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When alive, he'd usually avoided such levity.
Arcanum Unbounded
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She was highly scandalized at such levity.
Kindred of the Dust
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You are getting to be an old man, and such levity shocks one's reverence for your gray hairs.
Summerfield / or, Life on a Farm
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I will vote for you. There was little such levity elsewhere on a day of claustrophobic gloom and spitting drizzle.
The Guardian
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Thus schoolboys climb trees-butI forgot: this is a scientific article, and such levity is inconsistent with the dignity of science.
Science in Arcady
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Passing pedestrians looked at them, frowning, as if they disapproved of such levity so soon after the worst tragedy in the city's history.
Silent screams
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The lad knew he was being guyed, but he didn't mind: what hurt him was that his Bible College should be treated with such levity.
The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields
14
Thou reprovest us well, Sir and King; we Normans are too inclined to such levities.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01
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Such levity was most unseemly, yet on the other hand the pictures on the walls were surely unnecessarily depressing!
Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story
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Such levity is proper enough in the provinces, we make no doubt, but it ill suits the dignity of the metropolis.
The Innocents Abroad
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Such levity across language varieties
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