How To Use facetiously In A Sentence
- Words like pantywaist I should probably label as obsolete; a word like yclept, which crops up either facetiously or evocatively in speech and writing now and then, I should label as archaic. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
- It's a solid way to hone writing skills though, and I say "loathe" facetiously. Too Many Irons in the Fire
- But, like the book's happenings, some of its parodies seem facetiously misguided. Times, Sunday Times
- The Bothie was the name facetiously given by Alexander, Baron Rothie, son of the Marquis of Boarshead, to a house he had built in the neighbourhood, chiefly for the accommodation of his bachelor friends from London during the shooting-season. Robert Falconer
- “I know this is not quite the right word”, the inverted commas seem to say, “but I can’t be bothered to think of a better”; or, “please note that I am using this word facetiously”; or, “don’t think I don’t know that this is a cliché”. February « 2009 « Sentence first
- This is a point I've made facetiously for some time now.
- The first: At a demonstration in Berlin, our German comrades I do not use the word facetiously, only sadly hoisted a placard reading, Dresden 1945, Baghdad 2003: the same crime. Philocrites: August 2003 Archives
- Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer
- A chessboard was forthcoming at a later hour, when we amused ourselves with a couple of games, facetiously dubbing our chessman Federals and Confederates. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
- The hinge of the mirth was made to turn upon the irresistible drollery of one man's running away with another man's wife, and the outrageous fun of the consequent suicide of the injured husband; the _bons mots_ being most tragically humorous, and the aphorisms of the several characters facetiously concatenative of the nouns contained in the leading name of the piece -- "_Love_ and _Murder_. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841