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Meanings of flippancy in inglês

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Inappropriate levity.

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Usage of flippancy in inglês
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...
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Sir John apologized for his flippancy, and Whistler replied: About a day.
Whistler Stories
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When she felt deeply on any subject her father's flippancy annoyed her.
The Fruit of the Tree
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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
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But the difference between this tone and Wilde's carefully nurtured flippancy was astonishing.
The Guardian
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Yet beneath the surface flippancy Nan could read a genuine remorse and self-reproach.
The Moon out of Reach
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His flippancy had put the seal of completeness upon her anger.
The Perils of Pauline
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There was an earnestness that robbed the question of any flippancy.
The Spinners' Book of Fiction
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It is this incorrigible flippancy of which I have to complain.
An Unsocial Socialist
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She shot the thing at me with a manner suspiciously near to flippancy.
Ruggles of Red Gap
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By our own time even the flippancy has become a platitude.
The New Jerusalem
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