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.

  • I'm not sure how many of Royko's readers understood that much of what he wrote was facetious or fictionalized.

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • Journalists and other commentators have sometimes taken a facetious view of the situation, suggesting that person , itself, is sexist because -son denotes `male offspring,' that words like manhole are sexist, and that even woman ( wo + man ) is sexist.


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