Both Uses of
facetious
in
Lost Horizon
- Mallinson enunciated the proposition a shade nervously; but Barnard, the American, chose to be heavily facetious.†
Chpt 1 *
- 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.†
Chpt 3facetiousness = trivial humor