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Example sentences for: facetious

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A Spectator piece of his about the travel-office firings "was even accompanied by a facetious caricature of Hillary as a witch!"
The definitions are quite good and straightforward, despite the facetious tone of the prefatory matter and the illustrations.
People of color is an old facetious euphemism for Negroes: it is the plural of gentleman of color.
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.
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.