levity
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- n feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness
- n a manner lacking seriousness
- He did not respond with the seriousness it deserved and later regretted that he had dealt the matter with levity.
- Don't look for levity in The Passion, an account of the day Jesus was crucified starring James Caviezel (The Count of Monte Cristo) as Christ and Italian sex diva Monica Bellucci .
- Jaunty on many a British jurists' brow there perches the halo of high levity.