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flippancy|ˈflɪpənsɪ|
[f. flippant: see -ancy.]
The quality of being flippant; esp. disposition to trifle, frivolity; occas. in earlier use, Volubility.
1746H. Walpole Lett. H. Mann (1834) II. clxix. 176 The famous orator Henley is taken up for treasonable flippancies. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 8 It filled up my notions of French flippancy agreeably enough. 1807tr. Goede's Trav. II. 183 A continued flippancy of chit-chat in the boxes. 1808Med. Jrnl. XIX. 15 He..with asperity and flippancy adverted to a remarkable case I had written on nearly two years back. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. vii. 268 Effeminate prejudices and mere flippancies draped in elaborate rhetoric. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. ii. 64 Why, Jessie, you are generally the very essence of flippancy. |