facetiously
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There is no perfect name for this dynamic, but some have begun to refer to it, somewhat facetiously, as “Dark Woke.”
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026
The moment is a typical Bondian bad-guy intro, and yet because of the facetiously serious tone and absurd context around it, it’s absolutely sidesplitting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
“Not bad for a system QB, if you ask me,” Eagles tackle Jordan Mailata said facetiously.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2023
The word “housedaddies,” referring facetiously to fathers who help in the home, appeared for the first time in The Times yesterday.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
But all those 500 Bantu languages are so similar to each other that they have been facetiously described as 500 dialects of a single language.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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