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Exact Match:

flippancy: inappropriate levity; "her mood changed and she was all lightness and joy"

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waggery collapse: waggish behavior

panning collapse

leering collapse: showing sly or knowing malice in a glance; "she had run in fear of...his evil leering eye"- Amy Lowell; (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious; "leering drugstore cowboys"

taunting collapse

inobservance collapse

twitting collapse

razzing collapse

incuriosity collapse

playfulness collapse: a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement; "her playfulness surprised me"; "he was fun to be with"

raillery collapse

grinning collapse

jeering collapse

impertinence collapse: inappropriate playfulness

scoffing collapse

merriment collapse

impudence collapse: an impudent statement

volatility collapse: the trait of being unpredictably irresolute; "the volatility of the market drove many investors away"; the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor

inadvertence collapse

absentmindedness collapse: preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored

nonobservance collapse: a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc.

frivolity collapse: the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible

shallowness collapse: the quality of lacking physical depth; "take into account the shallowness at that end of the pool before you dive"

joshing collapse

banter collapse: light teasing repartee

distraction collapse: the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something; "conjurers are experts at misdirection"; mental turmoil; "he drives me to distraction"; an obstacle to attention

contempt collapse: a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body; a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous; open disrespect for a person or thing; lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"

roasting collapse: cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added); "the slow roasting took several hours"

hissing collapse

rudeness collapse

froth collapse: make froth or foam and become bubbly; "The river foamed"

trickery collapse: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them); verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

fooling collapse: characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter"

carelessness collapse: the quality of not being careful or taking pains

levity collapse: a manner lacking seriousness; feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness

thoughtlessness collapse

negligence collapse: failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances; the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern

superficiality collapse: lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling; shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something; "he ignored the wound because of its superficiality"

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