Translations for „flippancy“ in the English » German Dictionary

flip·pan·cy [ˈflɪpən(t)si] N no pl

1. flippancy (frivolousness):

flippancy

Leichtfertigkeit f

flippancy

Oberflächlichkeit f

2. flippancy (disrespectfulness):

flippancy

vorlaute [o. kecke] Art

flippancy

Schnodd[e]rigkeit f inf

flippancy

Flapsigkeit f inf

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English

But the callous flippancy suddenly seemed very superficial -- not entertaining, just immature.

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Bravado and flippancy are all very well, but the children often find themselves in chilling, life-threatening situations.

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Thus, their intellectual and emotional investment in rhetorical flippancy involving the question of ethnic politics, eventually assumes an ideological stock-in-trade character.

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The note of flippancy you can hear is exactly what comes through in the performance.

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It is amplified by the main presenter's flippancy towards damaging such desirable consumer electronic products that has often riled the people viewing watching it.

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On the surface it was a decade of flippancy and kitsch.

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Is it surprising that our surviving bourgeoisie, surrounded as they are by a culture of flippancy and desecration, should be so drawn to opera?

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Is the flippancy that such a reference is made at work that can be offensive.

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Also, the book's very tone -- its baroque syntax, knowing hyper-allusions, and clever wordplay -- draws out a kind of flippancy in response.

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The irony and occasional flippancy replicate much of the marriages shape.

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