Synonyms for flippancy
flip·pan·cy

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1. flippancy

   Liveliness and sprightliness are pleasant and commendable; smartness is a limited and showy acuteness or shrewdness, usually with unfavorable suggestion; pertness and sauciness are these qualities overdone, and regardless of the respect due to superiors. Impertinence and impudence may be gross and stupid; pertness and sauciness are always vivid and keen. Compare IMPUDENCE.

   Synonyms:
   boldness, briskness, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, liveliness, pertness, sauciness, smartness, sprightliness

   Antonyms:
   bashfulness, demureness, diffidence, humility, modesty, shyness

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1. flippancy, light-mindednessnoun

   inappropriate levity

   "her mood changed and she was all lightness and joy"

   Synonyms:
   light-mindedness

Matched Categories

1. • Levity

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1. flippancynoun

   Synonyms:
   volubility, fluency

2. flippancynoun

   Synonyms:
   pertness, boldness, impertinence, sauciness, impudence

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1. Bola Tinubu:

   The fuel shortage is severely biting for the average person. They are forced to remain in lines far too long, for too much time, to pay too much money for too little fuel, this is no joking matter. Livelihoods and people's welfare are at stake. With so much on the line, Kachikwu's flippancy was out-of-line.