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How to use flippancy in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word flippancy? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He insisted on everyone doing the same training and practice, expected people to look smart, and could not tolerate laxity or flippancy.
Grantham, always publicly self-deprecating, ratchets up flippancy to reckless levels when commenting on his youngest son.
He lists the erosion of liberty with enough precision to make objections to his flippancy seem footling.
He started cracking jokes, contrasting the flippancy of opposition politics with the weight of responsibility he had to bear.
Nietzsche certainly has his moments, as does Schopenhauer, but these are glimmers of mordancy compared to Kierkegaard's determined flippancy.
To some he appeared disorganized, slapdash, cheerful to the point of flippancy.
With his typical flippancy and a strong dose of humour, Alan Ayckbourn wrote a cheerful drama about passion, marriage and relational dead ends.
It does not include, in reference to pamphlet literature, flippancy or extravagance.
The photographs reveal that there is space for laughter, for flippancy, for beauty and fun in a country beset with internecine and identity-based troubles.
We get instead more or less cleverly excogitated, linguistically acrobatic flippancy, along with characters who bypass the heart and end up not mattering.
He mostly avoided the flippancy that sometimes undoes him, and seemed authentically indignant.
I was a bit concerned about the flippancy with which my original question had been greeted.
The flippancy of this conversational gambit does not impress her.
If he was confused at my flippancy, he didn't show it, and I was a little disappointed when he merely crossed his arms and slitted his eyes in amusement.
Thirdly, I believe that the British Government should be taken to task for the irresponsibility and flippancy it showed in carrying out this reclassification, so that the port of Gibraltar may return to its original category.
My nonchurchgoing flippancy and oddball upbringing were greeted with eye-rolling incredulity.
Examples from Classical Literature
He doesn't know a joke even when it's labelled and can't stand any flippancy.
And that he became audacious, edacious, and loquacious, is evident from such wit and flippancy as he here likes to display.
We catch a word, a touch of flippancy, a suggestion of licence, a covert sneer which goes too far by a hairsbreadth.
Then he fell thoughtful, his tone lost its note of flippancy.
To him, his art was too sacred to admit of any flippancy in discussing it.
Linton's flippancy, for the first time, was distasteful to Cashel.
There was an earnestness that robbed the question of any flippancy.
I rebuked him for his flippancy, but in the end I consented to take him.
They mistake self-control for coldness, and despair for flippancy.
A hyperbolical way of speaking is mere flippancy, and should be avoided.
There was never here any of that flashing humour which made the other masters suspect him of flippancy.
He felt angry with her for what seemed to him to be flippancy.
She shot the thing at me with a manner suspiciously near to flippancy.
Indeed, there was too lightsome a tone of flippancy all through the paper.
It is this incorrigible flippancy of which I have to complain.
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