How to Use facetious in a Sentence

facetious

adjective

• This sounds facetious but is not at all.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
• There’s also the face of that frog mascot with a facetious wink.
  — Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 28 Feb. 2024
• Diplo then set off a stream of response tweets, rich with memes and facetious apologies.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 12 June 2018
• 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
• This is not meant to be entirely facetious but who, exactly, would be doing the expecting?
  — George Caulkin, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
• 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 majority of the profile images appeared to be stock photos, and the job titles were all facetious.
  — Caroline Haskins, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2024
• In other instances, the report says that police may have over-reacted to facetious social media posts.
  — Ashley Remkus | [email protected], al, 28 Apr. 2021
• That quip no longer seems so facetious as a son of exiles who fled their homeland prepares to become America’s top diplomat.
  — Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024
• But lyrically, Now Only is stranger, sometimes facetious even.
  — Kevin Nguyen, GQ, 11 Apr. 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
• Check out Warrick’s facetious reaction to her aunt’s meet-up with Rihanna below.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2022
• The excess of emotion often scans as winkingly facetious, a dramatization to demonstrate just how deeply a person loves books.
  — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026
• Huff had one quarterback pressure Sunday (being facetious).
  — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
• And the other screen Bonds have their admirers, despite the lesser movies’ unevenness or facetious gadgetry.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• The film’s insularity belies what is, in the end, its inclusivity, or at least a facetious stab at inclusion.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• The quote went viral on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, as a clip of his comments began drawing facetious backlash.
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Maher’s power is the fascination his facetious commentary holds for other, less secure pundits.
  — Armond White, National Review, 7 June 2024
• Here the girlhood parallels move beyond the facetious to acquire a darker quality, as shame begins to erode Oppenheimer’s sense of self.
  — Iva Dixit, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Powell was, of course, being facetious, as the low-quality videos featured the actor as a teen running and jumping in the street and lip-syncing to the song while wearing a yacht captain’s hat.
  — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 17 Nov. 2025
• Bogart plays for teams with facetious names like the Kentucky Fighting Chickens and the Thundercats.
  — Mark Wright, star-telegram.com, 22 June 2017
• 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
• Some also expressed facetious disdain for how much money Downey must have accepted to come back to Marvel, suspecting a lucrative deal.
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 28 July 2024
• Mustafa Ali hilariously led a facetious cheering section for Dolph Ziggler.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2023
• 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
• His posture is authoritative without being imposing, his voice warm without being facetious.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
• 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
• Merholz was being facetious, of course, not seeking a ticket of admission into the Oxford English Dictionary.
  — Ralph Keyes, Time, 1 Apr. 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
• 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