facetious
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adjective \fə-ˈsē-shəs\Definition of FACETIOUS
1
: joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish <just being facetious>
2
: meant to be humorous or funny : not serious <a facetious remark>
— fa·ce·tious·ly adverb
— fa·ce·tious·ness noun
See Examples of FACETIOUS
- <the essay is a facetious commentary on the absurdity of war as a solution for international disputes>
- <a facetious and tasteless remark about people in famine-stricken countries being spared the problem of overeating>
- Nor was Liebling seriously asserting that his facetious bit of investigation into Tin Pan Alley history constituted a refutation of Sartre's philosophy. —Raymond Sokolov, Wayward Reporter, 1980
- … old ladies shrivelling to nothing in a forest of flowers and giant facetious get-well cards … —John Updike, Trust Me, 1962
- The portrait is good, the prose embroidered here with the facetious parlance—is that the word?—of clubs. —V. S. Pritchett, “Club and Country,” 1949, in A Man of Letters, 1985
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Origin of FACETIOUS
Middle French facetieux, from facetie jest, from Latin facetia
First Known Use: 1599
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