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Recent Examples of levity There was one notable moment of levity amid the aggression. Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 23 Sep. 2025 Behind the decks, a mischievous, trigger-happy DJ Próvaí occasionally came in a beat too early, adding an air of levity to the occasion. Sophie Williams, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025 There were also moments of levity during the trip Tuesday. Melissa Olson, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025 With global tensions running high, TIFF audiences appeared especially receptive to films embracing levity and escapism. Clayton Davis, Variety, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for levity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for levity
Noun
  • There were a lot of bold colors in the collections, transparency and lightness.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The building has kept some of this lightness of feeling all these years later, smallish and airy, its multiple exits and entrances providing the possibility of spontaneity.
    Katie da Cunha Lewin September 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Her vivacious attitude connects her with Aries (Stacey’s actual birthday is April 3) due to her fearlessness and cheerfulness in situations, no matter what is thrown at her.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Even its most mean-spirited plotline, in which a married couple assemble a fake theater production to humiliate their ex-neighbor whose noisiness prompted them to move, is presented as more of a gentle exercise in silliness than anything truly vindictive.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In a throwback to the warts-and-all silliness of the family’s legendary MTV reality show, The Osbournes, Coming Home appears to lean into the domestic comedy of the Osbourne clan, opening with a jittery Ozzy begging Sharon to stop driving in a herky-jerky manner.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Even on tour, fans go expecting dramatic catharsis to be undergirding all that glee.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Confetti canons shot out glittering rainbows, and Derevjanik began to dance around, shouting in glee.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For the forgiving, these simulcasts have insights and frivolities each Monday.
    Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This May the Eleventh Circuit denied him relief from a $25,000 Tax Court frivolity penalty.
    Peter J Reilly, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025

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“Levity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/levity. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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