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  • 111trickery — Synonyms and related words: art, artful dodge, artfulness, artifice, blind, bravery, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, chiffon, clinquant, collusion, conjuration, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, covin, craft, craftiness,… …

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  • 112twitting — Synonyms and related words: banter, bantering, booing, catcalling, chaffing, derision, derisive, derisory, fleering, flippancy, flippant, fooling, grinning, hazing, hissing, hooting, jeering, jesting, joking, jollying, joshing, kidding, leering,… …

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  • 113volatility — Synonyms and related words: airiness, animation, ascent, brainlessness, bubbliness, buoyancy, caducity, changeability, changeableness, coquettishness, corruptibility, daintiness, death, delicacy, downiness, empty headedness, ephemerality,… …

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  • 114waggery — Synonyms and related words: crack, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, drollery, elfishness, flippancy, foolishness, frivolity, gag, high spirits, impishness, jape, jest, levity, merriment, mischief, mischievousness, playfulness,… …

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  • 115LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER —    a name given to Democrates of Abdera for a certain flippancy he showed …

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  • 116disrespect — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of respect Nouns 1. disrespect, disesteem, disregard, disestimation, disfavor, disrepute, disparagement (see disapprobation); detraction; irreverence; slight, superciliousness, contempt; contumely,… …

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  • 117frivolity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. levity, flightiness, giddiness, folly.See unimportance. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. flightiness, triviality, silliness, levity, flippancy, lightness, puerility, trifling, folly, frippery, flummery,… …

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  • 118impertinent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. insolent, saucy, fresh, cheeky, impudent; irrelevant, inapt, inapposite. See insolence, disagreement. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Disrespectful] Syn. saucy, insolent, impudent, pert, fresh, rude,… …

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  • 119insolence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Rudeness Nouns 1. (overbearing behavior) insolence, arrogance; hauteur, haughtiness, airs; overbearance; presumption, assertiveness, bravado, pomposity, snobbery; defiance. 2. (impertinent behavior)… …

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  • 120levity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. frivolity (see folly); lightness (see levity). II Lightness in weight Nouns 1. levity, lightness, buoyancy, imponderability, weightlessness, volatility, airiness, levitation; fermentation,… …

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