Sample sentences for FACETIOUS

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Definition

trivial humor

I trust you didn't take her facetious remarks seriously.

facetious = trivially humorous

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Sydney Smith
For, the people who were shovelling away on the housetops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball—better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest— laughing heartily if it went right and not less heartily if it went wrong.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

facetious = humorous

"You've got a good ear," I said, I thought facetiously.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley

facetiously = humorously

MAMA: (Sensing their facetiousness) What's the matter with you all?
Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun

facetiousness = humor

(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)

This was because Wildfire was one of the Cooler Circuit substations, known facetiously as the Top Twenty.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain

facetiously = humorously

An oath or two, cat-calls, jeers and bits of facetious advice were given in reply.
Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

facetious = trivially humorous

Daugherty wasn't being facetious. He was serious.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink

facetious = trivially humorous

Scrooge resumed his labours with an improved opinion of himself, and in a more facetious temper than was usual with him.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

facetious = humorous

Then, toward sunset, coming down from the mountain where he had been felling timber, he had been caught by some strayed revellers and drawn into the group by the lake, where Mattie, encircled by facetious youths, and bright as a blackberry under her spreading hat, was brewing coffee over a gipsy fire.
Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome

facetious = trivially humorous

An oath or two, cat-calls, jeers and bits of facetious advice were given in reply.
Crane, Stephen -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
She looked at him, as though she chose to think his question facetious, and did not reply.
London, Jack -- Burning Daylight
It is a fine piece of irony; it is the only facetious remark in the Bible, I believe.
Twain, Mark -- The Innocents Abroad
"You can be facetious, I see," the latter observed carelessly.
Conrad, Joseph -- The Secret Agent
"Now you please to be facetious," was all the other could say.
London, Jack -- Martin Eden
I am not facetious.
Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville -- The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
With great outward show of rebellion, half genuine, half facetious, he made several tentative scrapes with the razor.
London, Jack -- The Valley of the Moon
"That's happen one o' the symptims, John," said the facetious coachman.
Eliot, George -- Adam Bede
He was bored at the vicarage, and when on the last day his uncle put him the usual question in the usual facetious tone:
Maugham, W. Somerset -- Of Human Bondage
replied a facetious member of this grave Society.
Verne, Jules -- Five Weeks in a Balloon

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