facetious
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It is plenty savvy in deploying plot devices from a dozen hoary genres while playing up the absurdities in the familiar Deadpan Facetious style.
From Time Magazine Archive
Facetious skeptics suspect that psychiatrists are themselves psychiatric cases.
From Time Magazine Archive
No drollery, for love sake: "Facetious fancies are the least profane." 1st Boy.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert
Now if I loved you less, my friend, Facetious Calvus, than these eyes, You merit hatred in such wise As men Vatinius hate.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
This is markedly the case with Apologues and Facetious Tales, two classes of traditions which do not come within the purview of the present work.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney
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