facetious

Example Sentences

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With such a heavy subject matter, Clunes says he deals with it by being a "little facetious", despite taking his work seriously.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

D’Aquino’s defense: She had been slyly subverting the propaganda machine the whole time, entertaining Americans with facetious language no one could take seriously and introducing upbeat American music the GIs actually loved.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

Bong walks a delicate line between being facetious and pulling his punches, and the script does sometimes fall to the latter side with some of its more trite resistance messaging.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2025

“I’m grateful that there is still room in the world for something facetious to occur now and then.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2023

Also, I know I was being facetious about that whole musk thistle thing, but hiking with them does sound fun.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon