The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word FACETIOUS
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More clues leading to the result FACETIOUS
- What is true about English I love, America being flippant?
- Playful aspect of promissory notes
- Waggish fellow, one with crumpled suit with old contents
- Amusing aspects will include debt
- Confront first of teenagers with evidence of debts, being sarcastic?
- Flip ace of suit out of sequence
- Inappropriately funny to confront journalist leaving flat
- Look out! Is it becoming funny?
- Regard admissions of debt as flippant
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The straight part
We know that "flippant" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case flippant = facetious.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does FACETIOUS mean?
FACETIOUS adjective- Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
- Pleasantly humorous; jocular.