levity
noun
lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness.
levities
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pluralof levity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The quality that makes Mr. Hardy's manner such a refuge from the levities and gravities of the "reforming writers" is a quality that springs from the soil.
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper
Here and there are apt indications of his proneness to those vicious levities and debasing luxuries which afterwards ripened into such a gigantic profligacy.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton
Yet even for these levities with which his pages are so liberally besprinkled or bedaubed, some half-apology may be circumspectly urged.
From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan
Once or twice he sighed at Wayne Shandon's failure to respond to his levities; and when he felt particularly unappreciated he carried his dimpling personality to the bunk house where he was hailed with delight.
From The Short Cut by Johnson, Frank Tenney
As the learned Grotius said of his own life, he consumed it in levities and strenuous inanities.
From Pioneer Surgery in Kentucky A Sketch by Yandell, David Wendel
