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"That I don't know, sir," the girl replied, speaking with a flippancy that was careless and almost impertinent.
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In parliament he had hitherto opposed all popular measures, sometimes with insolent flippancy.
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"They might as well kill a man as scare him to death," he said, with an attempt to get back to his customary flippancy.
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But when he had carefully dressed for it, and was immersed in its shallow flippancy, he reacted the other way.
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In the ecstatic solemnity with which she swore her faith to him the ordinary sensibilities of sex seemed a flippancy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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