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Facetious in a Sentence
  • Tom thinks he's being funny, but he's only being facetious and rude.
  • She was a facetious person, intending to be amusing.
  • Sorry if that sounds facetious, but it is a valid point.
  • Trying to talk to Jim about seriousfinancial issues is difficult because of his facetious personality.
  • Sara's parents were very angry with her facetious attitude when they scolded her.
  • There is no single quick answer, apart from the slightly facetious "in the ground."
  • I tried to let Jessica talk to me about what she's dealing with, but other people kept making facetious comments that made her uncomfortable.
  • If somewhat severe and irritable, he was at the same time scrupulously just, truthful, and steadfast; he never deserted a friend or took an unfair advantage of an antagonist; and on befitting occasions he could be cheerful and even facetious among his intimates.
  • Thomas de Noronha and Antonio Serrao de Castro, the first a natural and facile writer, the second the author of Os Ratos da Inquisicao, a facetious poem composed during his incarceration in the dungeons of the Inquisition, while Diogo de Sousa Camacho showed abundant wit at the expense of the slaves of Gongorism and Marinism.
  • In literature he embraced the whole sphere of contemporary studies, and distinguished himself as an orator, a writer of rhetorical treatises, a panegyrist of the dead, a violent impugner of the living, a translator from the Greek, an epistolographer and grave historian and a facetious compiler of fabliaux in Latin.
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