facetious
IPA: fʌsˈiʃʌs
adjective
- Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
- Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
- (Of an idea or statement) humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.
Examples of "facetious" in Sentences
- The guy was being facetious.
- This article was meant to be facetious.
- The students in this class are facetious.
- Your facetious post reveals your personality.
- In this facetious case, the logic is ridiculous.
- The summary section is obviously incorrect and facetious.
- The professors tend to take a facetious view of this fact.
- The facetious parts of the article were the work of a reporter.
- This however is not only incorrect but facetious in the extreme.
- Histories of the Contest tend to take a facetious view of this fact.