How To Use Facetiously In A Sentence
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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
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It's a solid way to hone writing skills though, and I say "loathe" facetiously.
Too Many Irons in the Fire
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But, like the book's happenings, some of its parodies seem facetiously misguided.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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“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”.
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This is a point I've made facetiously for some time now.
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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
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Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer
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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
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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
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In one large aperture, which the robber facetiously called his spence (or pantry), there hung by the heels the carcasses of a sheep, or ewe, and two cows lately slaughtered.
The Waverley
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Indeed, Asperger’s is all over SF, nor did I use the term facetiously in this case, since I suspect (albeit only from a remove, and based only on my interactions with him) that Burt may have some variation of Asperger’s, which would explain (although not necessarily excuse) some of his truculent behavior and inability to process why others might have objections to his actions.
A Gut Check Moment for SFWA « Whatever
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I facetiously call it the bitter season, and there have been times when it's been hard.
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Beyond Clinton and Palin, Kornblut describes the roadblocks all female candidates must hurdle, dubbed facetiously as "hair, hemlines and husbands," and as she tackles the question of what it will take to win, looks at the women who have successfully maneuvered around them.
National Catholic Reporter
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Our word jealousies contains all the vowels, though three of them only were necessary; nevertheless in the two words abstemiously and facetiously the vowels exist all of them in their usual order, and are pronounced in their most usual manner.
The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
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So it happened that when Missou arrived a few minutes later he found this pair of gentlemen, who were about to flee for their lives, busily inditing what McWilliams had termed facetiously billets-doux.
Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West
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He developed the idea facetiously, whilst John regarded him as he might have watched a performing monkey.
New Grub Street
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The little wizard, as Uncle Morris facetiously called her changeful impulses, was her tyrant.
Jessie Carlton The Story of a Girl who Fought with Little Impulse, the Wizard, and Conquered Him
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I am not asking this facetiously, I am genuinely puzzled as to why you decided to include this column over others in what I heard was a pretty heated competition last term.
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In one large aperture, which the robber facetiously called his spence
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
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Suggesting it as to people whom you do dislike, even if you suggest it facetiously, is mean-spirited.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Follow-up on Garrison Keillor:
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`I `I would never have guessed, "Kolchinsky said facetiously then wagged a finger of warning at him.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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[2] Witness his well known pun on the name of his adversary Vigilantius, whom he calls facetiously Dormitantius.
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes
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I should like to have you opposite me in any mood, whether the facetiously discursive, the metaphysically discursive, the personally confidential, or the jadedly CURSIVE and argumentative -- so that the oyster-shells which enclose my being might slowly turn open on their rigid hinges under the radiation, and the critter within loll out his dried-up gills into the circumfused ichor of life, till they grow so fat as not to know themselves again.
Familiar Letters of William James I
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Finding the facts and authorship of classic offenses, such as the thousands or even millions of petty thefts committed by mankind traditionally, goes almost unnoticed, since these are misdemeanors of "small criminals" that are facetiously and classically pointed out by society as "lowlife" crimes ...
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A learned commentator gives us what he facetiously calls a lullaby note on this.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 386, August 22, 1829
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Suggesting it as to people whom you do dislike, even if you suggest it facetiously, is mean-spirited.
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I had posted this link facetiously but see that some commenters, both pro and con, are taking it more seriously.
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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
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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
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I meant it facetiously