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Noun
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SpaceX could afford its flippancy on X because the company has always operated with a fly-fast, fail-fast, fly-again metabolism.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
17 Jan. 2025 -
Gone are the days of treating the vast majority of our skin with unwarranted flippancy.—
Allure,
Allure,
26 Sep. 2024
Noun
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There are no gilded gates here, but there is one heck of a party, complete with serenading busts, ballroom dancers, excitable opera singers, drunken buffoonery and portraits locked in an endless duel.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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What’s so special about Britain’s patron wanker of bighearted buffoonery?—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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His coy narrative voice and audacious insouciance, thinly disguised under a patina of classical Oxford education and self-deprecating wit, amuse the reader for several hundred pages.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
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The theme’s implicit insouciance becomes perplexing when accompanied by scientific studies and even a World Health Organization report touting the healing properties of art.—
Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2025
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Brandee Evans portrays the mourned Tammy with an easy vivacity (one that invites viewers to miss her as well).—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2025
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Most striking are the visuals, rendered with vivacity and poignancy.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Nov. 2024
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“Jocosity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jocosity. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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