Example sentences for: facetious

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

  • 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.


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