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Facetious meaning
Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant. | Pleasantly humorous; jocular. | humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.
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Example sentences (12)
Despite this review’s slightly facetious introduction, it’s clear their knowledge of youngsters was thoughtfully applied to their work, at times in small but telling ways.
I’m being facetious, but only a little.
Btw I'm being completely facetious with my posts.
Depending upon the companies to find the solutions when they have built and strengthened these practices is facetious.
His reserved disposition is a facetious compliment to his bloodthirsty and money-hungry villainous counterparts, which aptly sets up some of the film’s best comedic moments.
Letter to the editor: What really happened in the election of City Council Position 5Are you being facetious?
The DE is being facetious when it suggested that “The short-term first phase beginning this week will focus on setting national benchmarks for selling Guyana’s portion of its crude in the future”.
I think you’re being facetious, rather funny.
Another popular although facetious saying is that "a Yankee is someone from the North who visits the South.
Definition From The Facetious Nights of Straparola by Giovanni Francesco Straparola Although the fairy tale is a distinct genre within the larger category of folktale, the definition that marks a work as a fairy tale is a source of considerable dispute.
Gildon also offers a partly facetious epilogue, spoken by Shakespeare's ghost, who complains of the constant revisions of his work.
They were invented to show, in a somewhat facetious way, the ability of the language to form long words (see agglutinative language ).