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
I said facetiously, which got me a look that said, “Never!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
Andrea and I were to meet on May 1, so when I forwarded the restaurant confirmation, I facetiously suggested we should wear flowers or vine leaves in our hair, it being May Day and all.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
In talking with reporters the week after the team’s season-opening loss to the Chargers last year, Heinicke was asked facetiously if he had landed a partnership with Heineken, the beer company with the similar name.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 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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