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  • noun The quality of being flip.

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flip +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • That I even HAVE them speaks to some of the extra-curricular activities of late, but all flipness aside, one really has to be prepared.

    24 « March « 2009 « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2009

  • That I even HAVE them speaks to some of the extra-curricular activities of late, but all flipness aside, one really has to be prepared.

    Ten Things Tuesday: Funerals « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2009

  • These are likely to be somewhat flip, but it's a flipness founded in loooove.

    i apologize for my strengths. beatriceeagle 2007

  • That I even HAVE them speaks to some of the extra-curricular activities of late, but all flipness aside, one really has to be prepared.

    March « 2009 « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2009

  • I have problems with excessive flipness in my writing; thank you for pointing that out.

    HH Com 286 (285) Miss Snark 2006

  • The demon's answer is conclusive proof, despite its flipness, that he accepts the possibility of what I say.

    An East Wind Coming Cover, Arthur Byron 1979

  • Cruise has become intrigued by the faux-nostalgic flipness that has marked pop culture's recent forays into the Eighties, hence his impromptu trip to

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • There is a pervasive flipness to Saatchi that will be familiar to anyone who has spent much time in the "creative districts" of our cities, a snarkiness that sits oddly with the romantic view of artistic genius that he clearly holds dear and his undoubted boyish enthusiasm for the work he has bought, sold and exhibited.

    New Statesman 2009

  • It was perceived to be a thumbing-your-nose attitude, a moral flipness, an arrogance, because nobody in this movie ever said, ‘I’m sorry I’ve killed somebody.’

    STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

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