How to Use facetious in a Sentence

facetious

adjective

• 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
• Diplo then set off a stream of response tweets, rich with memes and facetious apologies.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 12 June 2018
• The questions were facetious, but Burnett didn’t smile.
  — Zach Helfand, latimes.com, 29 July 2017
• Now, Courtney, this is a way of asking the question in a facetious manner, but there is a kernel here.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 27 May 2022
• Bauer replied first with a string of chin-scratching emojis, then with a facetious allusion to possible malfeasance.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2018
• The Werewolf of Washington’ aren’t too scary, and the funny bits tend to come out fitfully facetious.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2018
• In other instances, the report says that police may have over-reacted to facetious social media posts.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 28 Apr. 2021
• And the other screen Bonds have their admirers, despite the lesser movies’ unevenness or facetious gadgetry.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• Hancock’s contingency plan to add cattle was facetious.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 10 May 2021
• Pitt: somehow facetious and wise at the same time, relishing the noise, as if daring curious onlookers to figure out the answer themselves.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2022
• This is being somewhat facetious and begrudgingly disrespectful to the players and coaches in the Padres clubhouse trying to win every day.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 July 2017
• Bogart plays for teams with facetious names like the Kentucky Fighting Chickens and the Thundercats.
  — Mark Wright, star-telegram.com, 22 June 2017
• But lyrically, Now Only is stranger, sometimes facetious even.
  — Kevin Nguyen, GQ, 11 Apr. 2018
• Sanders was being facetious, but a presidential candidate has, in fact, faced criticism over a third-grade essay.
  — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• In an unusual moment of advocacy for the ever-facetious series, Trump reminded viewers to vote this fall.
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• Check out Warrick’s facetious reaction to her aunt’s meet-up with Rihanna below.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2022
• Money also came up in somewhat facetious fashion early in the tribute show, which, for the top-tier ticket holders, came with a reception before and a dinner after the concert.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Jan. 2023
• While a team official said last week that Thomas was being facetious, and in fact Sibel did not say that, Thomas clearly was not the same player in terms of speed, quickness and strength in his legs.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• But the technological command and the cleverness on display in the colossal fight scenes also undercut their dramatic significance, as do the over-the-top theatrics that tip into the facetious.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2021
• But Sorkin ignores that inconvenient truth by giving this dramatic biopic a facetious documentary structure.
  — Armond White, National Review, 18 Feb. 2022
• Mustafa Ali hilariously led a facetious cheering section for Dolph Ziggler.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2023
• But can two men who are clearly, to varying degrees, being deceitful and facetious with each other really work together successfully?
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2022
• The best Injury Reserve songs are always facetious in this way: turning disparity into disruption.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021
• Donatella’s appeal—her fame transcends the confines of the fashion bubble—is a many-faceted, flashy, funny, facetious, life-enhancing thing.
  — Vogue, 14 Aug. 2019
• What was promoted as an exchanging of rings was better characterized as a facetious litany of moments designed to go viral, artifice presented with frenzied urgency but no earnest emotion.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 30 July 2019
• Spielberg’s own career then seemed upended by misguided egotism, not necessarily his own, but that of a faction hiding behind a facetious pretense of moral values and public trust.
  — Armond White, National Review, 10 Dec. 2021
• While a one-vote victory is facetious, the hypothetical ratio of deficit to surplus is an excellent way to see how badly the distribution of voters-by-state punished the losing candidate.
  — Time, 17 Sep. 2019
• Jefferson tolerated better than most Adams’s facetious and teasing manner.
  — Gordon S. Wood, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
• Merholz was being facetious, of course, not seeking a ticket of admission into the Oxford English Dictionary.
  — Ralph Keyes, Time, 1 Apr. 2021
• An index should be objective, but some indexers can’t resist expressing subjective judgments, or even mocking a book’s contents with facetious or insulting entries.
  — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024