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Example sentences for: facetious

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So does the former name for the colony, Van Diemen's Land (so named by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman), or its facetious variant, Vandemonia (former Tasmanian convicts being known on the mainland as Vandemonians).
More likely, they read wants as meaning `desires' rather than `lacks,' but that might well be a deliberate, facetious ambiguity.
I should have thought that `innovative' might have been a better gloss, and one must take account, too, that it was originally (and still is for those who have any sensitivity for the word) cynically facetious.
Very likely a facetious coinage, this appeared in quotation marks (attributing an AE source) in New Scientist , a British journal.
The definitions are quite good and straightforward, despite the facetious tone of the prefatory matter and the illustrations.