Both Uses
flippant
in
The Age of Innocence
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- Nothing could be in worse taste than misplaced flippancy; and he answered somewhat stiffly: "Yes, you have been away a very long time."†
Chpt 2 *flippancy = an inappropriate lack of seriousness
- He did not mind being flippant about New York, but disliked to hear any one else take the same tone.†
Chpt 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(flippant) showing an inappropriate lack of seriousness
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)