Flippancy
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English
Noun
Flippancy (plural flippancies)- A disrespectful levity or pertness especially in respect to grave or sacred matters.
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Adjectives for Flippancy
extravagant; friendly; verbal; studied; marked; open; definite; disgusting.
Thesaurus
absentmindedness, banter, booing, brashness, brassiness, brazenfacedness, brazenness, carelessness, catcalling, chaffing, cheek, cheekiness, cockiness, contempt, derision, discourtesy, disregard, disregardfulness, disrespect, disrespectfulness, distraction, face of brass, facetiousness, fleering, flightiness, fooling, freshness, frivolity, frivolousness, giddiness, grinning, heedlessness, hissing, hooting, impertinence, impishness, impudence, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference, inobservance, insolence, irreverence, jeering, jocularity, joshing, leering, levity, lightmindedness, lip, merriment, mischievousness, mockery, mouth, negligence, nonobservance, obliviousness, offhandedness, panning, pertness, playfulness, prankishness, pranksomeness, ragging, raillery, rallying, razzing, regardlessness, ridicule, roasting, roguishness, rudeness, sauciness, scoffing, shallowness, side, smart-aleckiness, smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, sportiveness, superficiality, taunting, thoughtlessness, trickery, trickiness, twitting, unalertness, unawareness, unconsciousness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unwariness, unwatchfulness, volatility, waggery, waggishness
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈflɪ.pən.si/, SAMPA: /"[email protected]/
- (US) IPA: /ˈflɪ.pɛn.si/, /ˈflɪ.pɛnt.si/, SAMPA: /"flI.pEn.si/, /"flI.pEnt.si/
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