Sentence example with the word 'flippancy'

flippancy

absentmindedness, cheek, distraction, grinning, inattentiveness, leering, obliviousness, razzing, smart-aleckiness, thoughtlessness, unobservance

Definition n. inappropriate levity

Last update: August 17, 2015


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He gets into problems in school due to his flippancy.   [Please select]

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Mrs Thrale rallied him, soothed him, coaxed him, and if she sometimes provoked him by her flippancy, made ample amends by listening to his reproofs with angelic sweetness of temper.   [Please select]

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The girl tossed off the words with a lightness so forced that it was almost flippancy.   [Please select]

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But the element of red is always sufficiently strong to keep the colour from flippancy.   [Please select]

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He did not stoop to gloze his own monumental flippancy.   [Please select]

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"Such flippancy is shameful in one of thy years, Mr."   [Please select]

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Before his growing earnestness she resorted quickly to the defence of flippancy.   [Please select]

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Being young, he did not approve of her flippancy.   [Please select]

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"Don't banter me," she said, wounded at what appeared to be his flippancy.   [Please select]

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Richey's flippancy is often a cloak for deeper feeling.   [Please select]

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Bernie was too miserable to voice the indignation which such flippancy evoked in him.   [Please select]

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