facetious
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Facetious skeptics suspect that psychiatrists are themselves psychiatric cases.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is plenty savvy in deploying plot devices from a dozen hoary genres while playing up the absurdities in the familiar Deadpan Facetious style.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is markedly the case with Apologues and Facetious Tales, two classes of traditions which do not come within the purview of the present work.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney
Facetious bystanders inquired sarcastically whether that thing were expected to carry more than one,—plainly implying by labored emphasis that it would occasionally be seen tenanted by even less than that number.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various
The only Reason your mournful Correspondent gives against this Facetious Epilogue, as he calls it, is, that he has mind to go home melancholy.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
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