flippancy

How To Use flippancy In A Sentence

• He started cracking jokes, contrasting the flippancy of opposition politics with the weight of responsibility he had to bear.
• not an appropriate (or fit) time for flippancy
• We get instead more or less cleverly excogitated, linguistically acrobatic flippancy, along with characters who bypass the heart and end up not mattering.
• The photographs reveal that there is space for laughter, for flippancy, for beauty and fun in a country beset with internecine and identity-based troubles.
• He started cracking jokes, contrasting the flippancy of opposition politics with the weight of responsibility he had to bear.
• To some he appeared disorganized, slapdash, cheerful to the point of flippancy.
• The work was widely attacked as blasphemous and scurrilous, occasionally praised as blunt and plain; its apparent flippancy was certainly intended to be provocative, and long remained so.
• The keelman was unprepared with an answer to this problem, but with characteristic flippancy he inquired, "Div ye knaw the conseekue of a keel losin 'her tide? The Romance of the Coast
• Maybe male pride is so brittle that we daren’t sound unmacho; maybe the public male voice is too tied to flippancy. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
• Not a fit time for flippancy.