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flippancies

flippancies is the plural 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

Questions about flippancies

What is flippancies the plural of?
Flippancies is the plural of flippancy.

Words near flippancies in the dictionary

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

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