How To Use Facetiousness In A Sentence
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Update: The point of my facetiousness is to simply point out that when societal attitudes begin to change for the better regarding race, it always seems like (many) far-right conservatives are waiting to seize on (or invent) anything that could be considered an "overreach".
Archive 2007-10-01
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So he presents his arguments in what is often called a ‘tongue-in-cheek’ manner, but is more accurately described as facetiousness.
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He had meant to be a little facetious about the Greek words; but it was the slowly prepared and rather exasperating facetiousness of an ageing man, and he had dropped it listlessly, as though he himself had perceived this.
Clayhanger
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‘All right,’ I said in parting, with a voice dripping with facetiousness.
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Then it seemed to me one entered a long patch of really bad writing [with] redundant adjectives, a kind of facetiousness, a terrible prolixity in the dialogue of such characters as the Nurse and Prunesquallor, and sentimentality too in the case of Eda [sic] and to some extent in Titus’s sister.
Weird Factoid of the Day
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And besides here are none of the old-time machines as elsewhere along our front; not a catapult, or bricole, or bible -- as some, with wicked facetiousness, have named a certain invention for casting huge stones; nor have we yet heard the report of a cannon, or arquebus, or bombard, although we know the enemy has them in numbers.
The Prince of India — Volume 02
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Hultin tries to play fair ball with Ephesians in translating εὐτραπελία as "facetiousness".
The Busybody
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But it's without any facetiousness that I admit that there's one game release this week that's particularly pricked my ear:
Boing Boing
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Oh, I don't know," she smiled, half with facetiousness and half with certainty and pride.
CHAPTER XI
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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
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Allowing for some degree of facetiousness on Andrew's part, he is otherwise highlighting the assumption that "good writing" consists essentially of deploying figurative language -- in this instance specifically a simile: "was wet like ..." -- in strategically chosen flourishes as a way to "describe.
Style in Fiction
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This self-deprecating facetiousness characterizes much of Maddin's verbal patter and not only is it a testament to his prodigious wit, but it also demonstrates why he gets away with the things he does.
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She frowned at his facetiousness - a pretty, adorable frown that made him put his arm around her kiss it away.
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Though occasionally the humour degenerates into facetiousness, the verbal dexterity of the verse is superb.
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Despite this initial facetiousness, Aaronovitch acclaimed a book he found "technically accomplished, brilliantly written, full of wit and virtuosity".
Critical eye: book reviews roundup
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Eclectic learning, pungent black humour sometimes degenerating into facetiousness, a stately but singular style, distinguish all his writing.
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He was quite his ordinary self, his facetiousness the cause of much laughter to Miss
CHAPTER XXIX