LEVITY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for LEVITY, such as:

1. It was cruel levity in you to do that.
2. His remarks injected a note of levity into the proceedings.
3. She could not endure the idea of treachery or levity, or anything akin to ill usage between him and his friend.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEVITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
levity
 n.  lack of seriousness; lightness of manner or speech, especially when inappropriate
Classic Sentence:
1  Front-de-Boeuf would have replied, but Prince John's petulance and levity got the start.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  Have patience, sir," replied his counsellor; "I might retort your accusation, and blame the inconsiderate levity which foiled my design, and misled your own better judgment.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  The downcast and sorrowful looks of these venerable men, their silence and their mournful posture, formed a strong contrast to the levity of the revellers on the outside of the castle.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
4  She could not endure the idea of treachery or levity, or anything akin to ill usage between him and his friend.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
5  It was cruel levity in you to do that.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
6  Again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of good-natured, sincere, and animated levity.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX
7  ; the pupils in the seminary, these tender levities; errors imputed to newspapers, the imposture which distills its venom through the columns of those organs; etc.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
Example Sentence:
1  Stop giggling and wriggling around in the pew: such levity is improper in church.
2  His remarks injected a note of levity into the proceedings.