facetiously

Example Sentences

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Just weeks later, the actor Vin Diesel echoed those sentiments when he predicted — Facetiously?

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2015

Facetiously, a Geithner aide said Mr. Steel and Mr. Geithner knew each other from the investment bank.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2010

Facetiously, he reminds us, is one of the few words in which all the vowels appear in the proper sequence; duoliteral is one of the even fewer in which they all appear backward.

From Time Magazine Archive

Be sure to send me all the press notices——" Facetiously he added: "—all the bad ones mind.

From The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life by Walter, Eugene