Facetious

//fəˈsiːʃəs//

"Facetious" in a Sentence (7 examples)

You're being facetious.

Tom is being facetious.

I was being facetious.

Are you accusing me of being facetious?

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

Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.

Glamour for its own sake is not something I have ever been particularly interested in,” Stella McCartney said backstage after her catwalk show. Which could sound like a facetious statement from a fashion designer who was, at that moment, standing among the marble-slabbed floors, elaborately frescoed ceilings and giant chandeliers of the Palais Garnier opera house, where the show was staged.

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