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Example sentences for: facetious
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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.
These are, as the book title suggest, witty; one could certainly agree that they are facetious; but they are not funny, and certainly not hilarious.
Any more pedantic suggestion being absent, I take the bit between the teeth to suggest that the above word, characterized by the OED as an “onomatopoeic representation of unmeaning chatter,” may well be a jocular rendering of Latin Flebiliter gemens , itself an almost facetious lament meaning something like `Woe is me!
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.
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).