How To Use Flippancy In A Sentence
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He started cracking jokes, contrasting the flippancy of opposition politics with the weight of responsibility he had to bear.
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not an appropriate (or fit) time for flippancy
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We get instead more or less cleverly excogitated, linguistically acrobatic flippancy, along with characters who bypass the heart and end up not mattering.
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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.
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He started cracking jokes, contrasting the flippancy of opposition politics with the weight of responsibility he had to bear.
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To some he appeared disorganized, slapdash, cheerful to the point of flippancy.
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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.
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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
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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
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Not a fit time for flippancy.
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His flippancy makes it difficult to have a decent conversation with him.
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Octave de Malivert unites varieties of detestableness in a way which might be interesting if (to speak with only apparent flippancy) it were made so.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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Grantham, always publicly self-deprecating, ratchets up flippancy to reckless levels when commenting on his youngest son.
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His flippancy makes it difficult to have a decent conversation with him.
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To some he appeared disorganized, slapdash, cheerful to the point of flippancy.
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But, perhaps aware there may be scant opportunities for flippancy in the next 10 months, he was in engaging mood, answering every question with a diverting directness and lack of self-absorption.
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They accused her of flippancy and subjectivity in her reporting of events in their country.
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If prolonged, the habit of Flippancy builds up around a man the finest armour-plating against the Enemy that I know, and it is quite free from the dangers inherent in the other sources of laughter.
"There are no moral or immoral jokes. A joke is either funny or it is not. That is all."
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To some he appeared disorganized, slapdash, cheerful to the point of flippancy.
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If he was confused at my flippancy, he didn't show it, and I was a little disappointed when he merely crossed his arms and slitted his eyes in amusement.
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If the cosseting was a simple demonstration of respect towards a world leader, then why the flippancy towards Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II?
NY Post: News
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It's hard to say what's worse: a summer blockbuster that treats death with video game flippancy or a dour bit of Oscar bait like this, pretending to legitimise ‘necessary’ violence through glamorous gunfire.
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He lists the erosion of liberty with enough precision to make objections to his flippancy seem footling (and based on straightforward political hostility).
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There were times of anger and hurt, and of deep despair when she hated the flippancy of Paris and its inhabitants.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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The flippancy of this conversational gambit does not impress her.
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And then his voice was measured, without the light sparkle of flippancy.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Adam either understood or picked up some flippancy in my voice.
DOUBTING THOMAS
