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facetious

Speech parts

1. facetious - Adjective

2. facetious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion.

Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters. Isaac Barrow

It sounds like I'm always being facetious. That's why I never get voice over work. 'You sound like you hate the product.' Janeane Garofalo

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. Josh Billings

a bantering tone Source: Internet

facetious remarks Source: Internet

tongue-in-cheek advice Source: Internet

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