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facetious
/fəˈsiʃəs/
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What does facetious mean?
adjective
- 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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IPA pronunciation
/fəˈsiʃəs/
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There was a magnetism of dulness in them which would have beaten down the most facetious companion that the earth ever knew.
"There," said he, "I have related under a facetious form of narrative many of the so-called supernaturalisms and preternaturalisms familiar to the Hindus."
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Clifford stared at her—not at all like a clever child; and then, with one of his little facetious growls, took his departure.
And, with that, aunty gave George a nudge with her finger, designed to be immensely facetious, and turned again to her griddle with great briskness.
With the passionate song of the bullets and the banshee shrieks of shells were mingled loud catcalls and bits of facetious advice concerning places of safety.