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Перевод: flippancy

[существительное]
легкомыслие; ветреность ; несерьезность ; непочтительность ; дерзость

Тезаурус:

1. But beneath his flippancy was a real sympathy for what we were trying to do and an appreciation of the common aims we shared for work in the schools.
2. The verbal pinpricks are shrewdly administered in a story indulgent to the conscious flippancy of the early 1920s; from our own angle of vision it seems as though one socially artificial and isolated world is being used to comment on an earlier, equally artificial and isolated one.
3. He was busily pruning his nails with a pair of scissors and trying to make up his mind about the proper degree of flippancy to adopt for his conversation with Madeleine, when the romance of his afternoon was suddenly eclipsed by the strident voice of his father, grating like a rusty wheel on a dry axle.
4. Vaughan's gravity may have exacerbated Minton's flippancy, his flightiness becoming a form of self-protection from Vaughan's unremitting critical intelligence.
5. It is in this profoundly grateful and reverent sene, certainly not with any heartless flippancy, that forty years later in the prison stockade Pound greets the sunset as a designer - "grand couturier".
6. It was surprising, now he came to think of it, that this hadn't scared him off, but he'd been lulled by her flippancy.
7. But if the new listeners were amazed by that piece of flippancy, then there was more to come.
8. Which isn't to imply that flippancy is his stock-in-trade.
9. The Duchess shrugged of his flippancy, and instead offered the elegant young man a most suspicious stare.
10. IN spite of his determined flippancy and his furious pursuit of the passing attraction, Minton could not disguise his underlying seriousness nor the depth of his cultivation.
11. Non-fiction is heavy too, with serious works from Brian Keenan, An Evil Cradling (Vintage), and Simon Weston's Going Back (Signet) - to the Falklands, that is - contrasting with the flippancy of Cynthia Heimel's Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Goodbye (Macmillan).
12. The Brigade claimed that it could offer both the spirit and the purpose because it "disciplines and controls our lads tames flippancy, quells impertinence, promotes chivalry, encourages reverence, teaches ready obedience to all properly constituted authority, and insists upon pure and clean English and temperance in all things".
13. Glossily produced and containing lots of advertisements from local businesses (eighteen of the thirty pages were advertising), Looking Right delighted in flippancy.