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.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • The entries include the facetious ( throat trouble Death by hanging; get or have a permanent To be executed by electrocution), the legal and legalistic ( executory devise A situation in which no estate vests under the will until the occurrence of a future event), the jargon-based ( psycho-weaponry Fear of death implanted in the minds of victims by terrorists; performance suicide Suicide in response to a sense of failure in meeting society's standards), the poetic ( pull a Frankie and Johnny To kill one's husband in revenge), the religious and mythological ( Petbe Egyptian myth .

  • If the rowdy and facetious new film The Mummy suggests anything, it's that we've come to what Francis Fukuyama might call "the end of horror movies."


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