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Facetious

//fəˈsiːʃəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.

    "Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious."

  2. 2
    Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
  3. 3
    humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.
Adjective
  1. 1
    cleverly amusing in tone wordnet

Etymology

From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (“jest, wit, humor”), from facētus (“witty, jocose, facetious”).

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