Thesaurus / facetiousness
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"Sha'n't tell tales out of school," he replied, with another weak attempt at his old facetiousness.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EVIDENCEOLIVER ONIONSThe wretch laughed at her own facetiousness, and at once took steps to have some more "fun," as she called it.
SHADOW, THE MYSTERIOUS DETECTIVEPOLICE CAPTAIN HOWARDBut the genuine humourist sees something in that feature itself, as nature shaped it, to excite his facetiousness.
GEORGE ELIOTMATHILDE BLINDThey certainly know how many make five; and their facetiousness in close proximity to a large British Column was beyond us.
THE SIEGE OF KIMBERLEYT. PHELANYou call a cigar a "convoluted weed," and so on, you know; that passes for facetiousness.
NEW GRUB STREETGEORGE GISSINGAnother example of ready American facetiousness cheered a dull day for me last year in Tennessee.
FROM PILLAR TO POSTJOHN KENDRICK BANGSBut I doubt my present stock of facetiousness—that is, of good serious humor—so as not to let the cat out of the bag.
MY RECOLLECTIONS OF LORD BYRONTERESA GUICCIOLIAs in duty bound, the lieutenant laughed heartily at the facetiousness of his commander.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 59, NO. 368, JUNE 1846VARIOUSThis referred, with polite facetiousness, to Mrs. Twomey's stature, and was taken by her in excellent part.
MOUNT MUSICE. OE. SOMERVILLE AND MARTIN ROSSYet London in his time was literally the village that modern facetiousness calls it.
THE HAUNTS OF OLD COCKAIGNEALEX THOMPSONWORDS RELATED TO FACETIOUSNESS
- amusement
- badinage
- banter
- buffoonery
- clowning
- comedy
- comicality
- comicalness
- drollery
- drollness
- facetiousness
- farce
- farcicality
- flippancy
- fun
- funniness
- gag
- gaiety
- happiness
- high spirits
- humorousness
- jest
- jesting
- jocoseness
- jocosity
- jocularity
- joke
- joking
- joyfulness
- kidding
- levity
- lightness
- playfulness
- pleasantry
- raillery
- ridiculousness
- tomfoolery
- whimsy
- wisecrack
- wit
- witticism
- wittiness
- zaniness
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