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flippance

flippance is the alternative form of flippancy.

Meaning of flippancy

Noun

flippancy (countable and uncountable, plural flippancies)

  1. A disrespectful levity or pertness especially in respect to grave or sacred matters.
    • "It was the same direction from which the American had come. Something terrible lay that way. It was my business to find out what it was." "What did you do?" My flippancy was all gone.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of flippance

pluralflippances

Questions about flippance

What is flippance the alternative form of?
Flippance is the alternative form of flippancy.

Words near flippance in the dictionary

  1. flipout
  2. flipouts
  3. flipover
  4. flipovers
  5. flippable
  6. flippance
  7. flippances
  8. flippancies
  9. flippancy
  10. flippant
  11. flippantly

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