Example sentences for: facetiously

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

  • Although someone might reasonably characterize one's own behavior as “flirting,” for example, it is unlikely that a person would report “making sexual advances,” except facetiously.

  • Keyes, who in a previous debate accused John McCain of lending aid and comfort to fans of Nine Inch Nails, was participating, however facetiously, in the Caucasian version of the gangster culture that he thinks is destroying America.

  • But the largest group of gay taunts can be classified as the ped- group, all words inspired by pederasty: pederaj, pederash, pederishka, pederin, pederko, pedal, pedalo, petsa, pechurka, pepos, pedos, pepi, pedikir (a pun on pedicure ), peder, and its facetiously French-sounding inversions derpé and depré.


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