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Example sentences for: facetious
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On another subject, lest a reader be misled into assuming that Skeat was a bishop by the facetious heading, “The Invariably Right Reverend Walter W. Skeat [OBITER DICTA, XVIII, 1], it should be pointed out that Right Reverend is the customary title for that rank in the Anglican Communion.
Still, if the French persist in wanting to make this kind of American-style blockbuster, they should study his performance, which is neither serious nor facetious but something--intangibly American--in between.
Prudie is not being facetious.
A Spectator piece of his about the travel-office firings "was even accompanied by a facetious caricature of Hillary as a witch!"
People of color is an old facetious euphemism for Negroes: it is the plural of gentleman of color.