flippancy

Example Sentences

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These flippancies are put in their place, though, by the sloth, a languid and phlegmatic wee beast whose name is taken in vain to indicate indolence; 20 October is its day to shine.

From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2019

The paintings of Jacques Louis David carry the insignia of that austere and serious age which, now ignorantly identified with the flippancies of a decadent court, preceded and precipitated the French Revolution.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite his flippancies and irrelevancies, Iddon usually tries to be kind to the U.S. in his own way, often shows a sharp editorial insight.

From Time Magazine Archive

However true such flippancies may be about the type-part of Shylock, they are certainly untrue of the play's great character-part, Portia.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is one of Peggy's severest daily penalties to recognise in her sister's languid speech continually recurring phrases of Betty's; thin echoes of her flippancies.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda