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单词 flippancy
释义
flippancy
noun[U]
uk
/ˈflɪp.ən.si/us
/ˈflɪp.ən.si/
thequalityof not beingseriousabout aserioussubject, in anattemptto befunnyor toappearclever:
When shefrowned, heregrettedhis flippancy.
This is not thetimefor flippancy.
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flippant
More examples
  • Hespokewith a flippancy he wasfarfromfeeling.
  • All the flippancy wassuddenlygone from herface.
  • Sheavoidedflippancy whenrespondingtoconcerns.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not showing careful thought
  • airily
  • airiness
  • airy
  • bash
  • bashsomethingout
  • cuff
  • frivolous
  • frivolously
  • ill-conceived
  • incautious
  • incautiously
  • off the cuffidiom
  • preconceived
  • shallow
  • shallowly
  • shallowness
  • shoot from the hipidiom
  • thoughtless
  • unconsidered
  • unthinking
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(Definition offlippancyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofflippancy

flippancy
In this context, the ministry wanted a name that was easily memorable but avoided charges offlippancy.
From theCambridge English Corpus
What is the difference between 'flippancy' and playful ambiguity ?
From theCambridge English Corpus
Theirflippancydetracts from the seriousness of death, which therefore makes them preferable to more direct terms like die.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Excusing theflippancy, there is nothing very much any of us can do.
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Does he now consider that he himself is also guilty of procrastination andflippancy?
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
He seems to confoundflippancywith sound reason.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
In the circumstances, is not the suggestion that he does not know the reason something in the nature of an irrelevantflippancy?
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
He is often flippant, and we do not object to that, because sometimesflippancyis better than dullness.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Perhaps because it is getting late now, thatflippancyhas not been so apparent in the last hour or so.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
We asked, not for reasons offlippancy, if it was possible to express these matters clearly.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
This is a matter not forflippancybut for serious consideration.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
He dealt with our views withflippancyand insult.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Apart from irrelevant flippancies, is it not a fact that the drug is really of great use in certain cases and cannot be dispensed with?
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
However, we may sometimes be a little less enthusiastic about his flippancies from the sidelines, especially when dealing with important international gatherings.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It is very dangerous to mention the name of a fundamental thinker in 1938, in this age of superficiality andflippancy.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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