levity.

‘Miss Hazeltine,’ he said, in a voice that tottered with annoyance, ‘I speak as your sincere well – wisher, but this can only be called levity.’

The Wrong Box 2004

Screams from a few of the ladies and exclamations of terror from others were mixed now and then with words that sounded very like an oath to Daisy's ear, though they were not spoken in levity.

Melbourne House 1907

'Miss Hazeltine,' he said, in a voice that tottered with annoyance, 'I speak as your sincere well-wisher, but this can only be called levity.'

The Wrong Box Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Certainly the illustrator's work gives "Nicholas" just the right kind of levity.

Archive 2006-03-01 fusenumber8 2006

YOU dwarf him! and there are moments when we view YOUR sympathy with an indescribable anguish, when we resist it, -- when we regard your seriousness as more dangerous than any kind of levity.

Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

By the way, Fred Astaire films do that too, that kind of levity.

The Guardian World News 2009

By the way, Fred Astaire films do that too, that kind of levity.

The Guardian World News 2009