Examples of levity

• Sometimes, this conclusion can have a supercilious air - niceness can easily be reduced to levity or fecklessness.

• What connection is there between levity and heat, or gravity and cold?

• No sorrow, no salutary terror, no abhorrence, no seriousness; nothing but ribaldry, debauchery, levity, drunkenness, and flaunting vice in fifty other shapes.

• The first is one of levity.

• He treated it with a little levity at one stage in his speech.

• She needs to treat the matter with some seriousness, not levity, in her winding-up speech.

• No one has accused him, or ever would, of levity.

• I think the levity on the other side is rather misplaced.