Example sentences for: facetious

How can you use “facetious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On my Los Angeles radio show this past Saturday I did a facetious "Welcome to the Left" bit embracing GWB's new move to the progressive side.

  • A Spectator piece of his about the travel-office firings "was even accompanied by a facetious caricature of Hillary as a witch!"

  • 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.

  • More likely, they read wants as meaning `desires' rather than `lacks,' but that might well be a deliberate, facetious ambiguity.


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