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flippant
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  • Something about the middle pretty made it hard to be flippant. He was wisdom personified, his manner so serious and formal that Tally found herself wishing she had dressed up.  (source)
    flippant = show an inappropriate lack of seriousness
  • The happy-go-lucky Anne laughs, gives a flippant reply, shrugs her shoulders and pretends she doesn't give a darn.  (source)
    flippant = not serious (casual, clever, or funny)
  • (Coming to her with genuine romantic flippancy) I will show you our mountains and our stars; and give you cool drinks from gourds and teach you the old songs and the ways of our people—and, in time, we will pretend that—(Very softly)—you have only been away for a day.  (source)
    flippancy = lack of seriousness
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  • The problem, however, is this: This is no time to be flippant.†  (source)
  • In the brief time that Louie had known Mac, the tail gunner had struck him as a decent, friendly guy, although a bit of a reveler, confident to the point of flippancy.†  (source)
    flippancy = an inappropriate lack of seriousness
  • " Jus' ole Harlan," said T.J. flippantly as the expensive car rounded a curve and disappeared, then he and Claude started down the bank.†  (source)
    flippantly = with an inappropriate lack of seriousness
  • In answer to "late attempts to undervalue" the President, readers were reminded that Adams stood "among the few surviving, steady, tried patriots" whose services to the country were of a kind almost beyond compare: Bred in the old school of politics, his principles are founded on the experience of ages, and bid defiance to French flippancies and modern crudities......Always great, and though sometimes alone, all weak and personal motives were forgotten in public energy and the security of the sacred liberties of his country......Deeply versed in legal lore, profoundly skilled in political science;†  (source)
  • The flippant said it must have been to ensure that he was actually dead; but such a remark did not do justice to the men and women who waited and wept.†  (source)
  • "Well," I said at last, aiming to ease the tension with flippancy, "one of these days I just might.†  (source)
    flippancy = an inappropriate lack of seriousness
  • And—" Hearing Jen say that so flippantly you don't exist—made Luke feel funny.†  (source)
    flippantly = with an inappropriate lack of seriousness
  • But Ron was careful not to be flippant about Voldemort over the next few days.†  (source)
  • "We knew," Ricardo said with an air of flippancy.†  (source)
    flippancy = an inappropriate lack of seriousness
  • "Okay, then," I said flippantly, trying to alleviate the suddenly tense atmosphere.†  (source)
    flippantly = with an inappropriate lack of seriousness
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