Definition of "flippancy" []

• A disrespectful levity or pertness especially in respect to grave or sacred matters. (noun)

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• "As Schwiebert once quietly complained to me, “a time in media when flippancy is substituted for genuine knowledge.”"
• "Part of it, if I may be excused a moment of flippancy, is that they are doing such a good job of making fools of themselves (and sometimes of Tolkien) that I see no reason to add my own meed of incapacity."
• "But behind his flippancy was a certain grim disquiet: who or what had incited this magic sword to slay him?"