All 4 Uses of
facetious
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- Ralph had usually treated it facetiously; but present circumstances proscribed the facetious.†
Chpt 18 *facetiously = humorously
- Ralph had usually treated it facetiously; but present circumstances proscribed the facetious.†
Chpt 18
- Isabel continued to warn her good-humouredly; Lady Pensil's obliging brother was sometimes, on our heroine's lips, an object of irreverent and facetious allusion.†
Chpt 20
- "I guess you don't know every one I know," Mr. Bantling rejoined facetiously.†
Chpt 27facetiously = humorously
Definition:
trivial humor