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
Ze brave Picton 'e fall in ze arms of victoire—— Facetious Britisher.
From Mr. Punch on the Warpath Humours of the Army, The Navy and The Reserve Forces by Various
Facetious bystanders inquired sarcastically whether that thing were expected to carry more than one,—plainly implying by labored emphasis that it would occasionally be seen tenanted by even less than that number.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various
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
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