as in lightness
a lack of seriousness often at an improper time
no one appreciates your flippancy during our religious services
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Recent Examples of flippancy
For a certain generation, the truth doesn’t really matter less than the myth itself: a legendary rock star treating the world’s most luxurious car with such flippancy on his way to dying too young.
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Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2025
But the flippancy of the phrase belies the detailed precision with which the Sky plan to manufacture 3-point looks.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025
England have shown a certain flippancy towards white-ball cricket since winning the 2019 World Cup.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
There are, at times, flashes of exasperation in her responses to Agnes’ possessiveness or flippancy.
—Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2025
But the flippancy of the phrase belies the detailed precision with which the Sky plan to manufacture 3-point looks.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025
England have shown a certain flippancy towards white-ball cricket since winning the 2019 World Cup.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
There are, at times, flashes of exasperation in her responses to Agnes’ possessiveness or flippancy.
—Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flippancy
Noun
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The lightness of the precious fabrics, from vicuña and cashmere to wool, silk, and cotton, and its double fabrics remained Brioni signatures.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
20 Jan. 2026
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The new Dark Horse will certainly have more grunt, but Ford also emphasized the aerodynamic improvements and additional lightness that the automaker added to burnish its track performance and to give owners something more to tell their friends about.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
15 Jan. 2026
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That indefatigable cheerfulness, even when describing scenes that sound brutal to almost anyone else, ran through the entire interview.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
5 Dec. 2025
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As Milchick, Tillman infused an unnerving cheerfulness into Lumon Industries’ macrodata refinement supervisor, a character who became increasingly central in Season 2.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
15 Sep. 2025
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His former teammates watched the highlight reel with glee from afar.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
11 Jan. 2026
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Not only do the four statues bode well for the film’s future, but the room buzzed with good will for Anderson, who didn’t try to hide his glee.—
Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN Money,
11 Jan. 2026
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The silliness doesn’t stop there, however.—
Dan Santaromita,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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By this point in the MonsterVerse, though, the lore and silliness is verging on becoming an outright bug rather than a feature, and even the kaiju action seems oddly devoid of scale or stakes — dumb fun, but the dumb-to-fun ratios are off.—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
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Some additional scenes are short, but add levity and color to the movies, like Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee using elven rope, gifted by Galadriel, to rappel down a mountain in Two Towers.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Jan. 2026
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Yet despite her weighty subject, the filmmaker approached her craft with levity.—
Ben Croll,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2026
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Their needs are too great to waste any more time on frivolities such as sales-tax breaks on gun sales or concert tickets or the governor’s never-ending fixation on drag queens.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Jan. 2026
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The media’s historical focus on higher-profile candidates and outsiders may reflect not press frivolity but rather genuine shifts in voter sentiment during periods of discontent with conventional politicians and established governance approaches.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Jan. 2026
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“Flippancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flippancy. Accessed 24 Jan. 2026.
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