Sample Sentences forfacetious (editor-reviewed)
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She made a facetious comment about quitting school and becoming a pirate, but no one laughed.facetious = not serious
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I trust you didn't take her facetious remarks seriously.
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Her facetious tone made it hard to tell whether she actually meant what she said.
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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. (source)facetious = humorous
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MAMA: (Sensing their facetiousness) What's the matter with you all? (source)facetiousness = humor
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"You've got a good ear," I said, I thought facetiously. (source)facetiously = humorously
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Daugherty wasn't being facetious. He was serious. (source)facetious = trivially humorous
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This was because Wildfire was one of the Cooler Circuit substations, known facetiously as the Top Twenty. (source)facetiously = humorously
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She actually held the door open for him; she even managed a charming curtsy—inappropriately girlish, but Harriet Wheelwright was gifted with those essentially regal properties that make the inappropriate gesture work ...those being facetiousness and sarcasm.† (source)standard suffix: 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.
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An oath or two, cat-calls, jeers and bits of facetious advice were given in reply. (source)facetious = trivially humorous
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"Maybe he's fishing," Dish Boggett said facetiously.† (source)
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"Sulk at you?" said Mr. Glegg, in a tone of angry facetiousness.† (source)
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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. (source)
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"You want to hide?" asked Conklin facetiously, turning the pages of a telephone notebook.† (source)
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Barnard managed to exclaim, with desperate facetiousness; but the guides soon showed that their less sinister intention was merely to link the party together in ordinary mountaineering fashion.† (source)
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Don't be facetious, girl!† (source)
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