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flippancy
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"That I don't know, sir," the girl replied, speaking with a flippancy that was careless and almost impertinent.
In parliament he had hitherto opposed all popular measures, sometimes with insolent flippancy.
"They might as well kill a man as scare him to death," he said, with an attempt to get back to his customary flippancy.
But when he had carefully dressed for it, and was immersed in its shallow flippancy, he reacted the other way.
In the ecstatic solemnity with which she swore her faith to him the ordinary sensibilities of sex seemed a flippancy.
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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to flippancy, such as: archness, cheek, cheekiness, cockiness, flightiness, and freshness.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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