Persiflage  

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Persiflage is a term of art for a light, quizzing mockery, or scoffing, especially on serious subjects, out of a cool, callous contempt for them.

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De siffler avec le préfixe per-, issu du verbe latin sībilō avec un glissement de consonne.

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