facetious

How To Use facetious In A Sentence

• I'm not being facetious - the reason I'm sure of this is because I've received so much feedback this year.
• He developed the idea facetiously, whilst John regarded him as he might have watched a performing monkey. New Grub Street
• I realize he was likely being facetious with discussing how he's perfect, but it still amazes me that he'd say it.
• I meant it facetiously
• She smiled her way through "facetious" and didn't hesitate as she worked her way through "hemerocallis" - another word for a day lily. ABC News: Top Stories
• The Eastern mace is well known to English collectors, it is always of metal, and mostly of steel, with a short handle like our facetiously called life-preterver The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Well, I dunno," said Grandpa Walker, facetiously, balancing a good-sized morsel of food carefully on the blade of his knife, "that depen's on wuther ye're willin 'to take pot-luck with us or not. The Flag
• ` ` White, '' called a facetious member, but White did not notice. Old Creole Days
• Woodward ended the questioning session with facetious conjectures for the outcome of the upcoming election.
• For a certain portion of the passengers had the unmistakable excursion air: the half-jocular manner towards each other, the local facetiousness which is so offensive to uninterested fellow-travelers, that male obsequiousness about ladies 'shawls and reticules, the clumsy pretense of gallantry with each other's wives, the anxiety about the company luggage and the company health. Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing