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Example sentences for: facetious

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The very terms Anglish and Yinglish invite scholarly derision as being both facetious and inaccurate.
Ironists run a continual risk: if they nudge too hard and use too broad an irony, they risk sounding facetious; if they stay deadpan and use too subtle an irony, they sound in earnest and risk being taken literally.
Very likely a facetious coinage, this appeared in quotation marks (attributing an AE source) in New Scientist , a British journal.
If the rowdy and facetious new film The Mummy suggests anything, it's that we've come to what Francis Fukuyama might call "the end of horror movies."
Journalists and other commentators have sometimes taken a facetious view of the situation, suggesting that person , itself, is sexist because -son denotes `male offspring,' that words like manhole are sexist, and that even woman ( wo + man ) is sexist.