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flippancy

/ˈflɪ.pən.si/US/ˈflɪ.pɛn.si/

flippancy noun: a disrespectful levity or pertness especially in respect to grave or sacred matters.

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

flippancy meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

flippancy in Urdu

البیلا پن, چرب زبانی, شوخی, تیزی

flippancy in Malayalam

facetiousness, frivolity, levity
വാക്ചാപല്യം, നിസ്സാരഭാഷണം, മര്യാദയില്ലായ്മ, അധികപ്രസംഗം, ലഘുത്വം, നിരർത്ഥകവ്യവഹാരം

Forms of flippancy

pluralflippancies
alternative formflippance

Origin of flippancy

From flippant + -cy.

Questions about flippancy

What does flippancy mean?
Flippancy means a disrespectful levity or pertness especially in respect to grave or sacred matters.
What is flippancy in Urdu?
Flippancy in Urdu is البیلا پن, چرب زبانی, شوخی. See Flippancy meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is flippancy?
Flippancy is a noun.
How do you pronounce flippancy?
Flippancy is pronounced /ˈflɪ.pən.si/ (UK).
What is the plural of flippancy?
The plural of flippancy is flippancies.

Words near flippancy in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: flippancy (page history and authors); flippancy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); flippancy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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