levity

Both have earned fandoms by injecting levity into managing each election’s data flood.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026

"But I appreciate these are very serious issues and am sorry for any offence inadvertently caused by this moment of levity".

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Still, some within and around the court saw him as the court’s glue, bringing levity in his interactions with his colleagues and avoiding hard-edge commentary in his opinions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

In our dire age, a little bit of levity can often feel like a wager, staking your bets on an audience’s bandwidth for fun.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

Zooey turned and looked at her, and—unpredictable young man—made a very dour face, as though he had suddenly eschewed any and all forms of levity.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

P.S.  I hope these foolish letters don’t cost you and Morton much: I always pay 1s. 7d. for them here: which ought to carry such levities to Hindostan without further charge.

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright

"She means nothing, I am certain, by all these levities, or, rather, she does not care what they mean; but here come our brothers, and I am eager for news, if they have any."

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever

As the learned Grotius said of his own life, he consumed it in levities and strenuous inanities.

From Pioneer Surgery in Kentucky A Sketch by David Wendel Yandell

This time twelvemonth, for example, you, my dear doctor, may be a bishop, and not over inclined to these harmless levities.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever

I wonder if, in the midst of the stammered and blurted incoherences, the lapses and levities, of this quaint book, a sort of "orientation," as the theologians say now, has emerged at all?

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys