facetious

Example Sentences

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Dr Bączyk-Bell said the process had been a "facetious charade" and it was a "false equivalence" to talk about hurt caused to those who had been theologically opposed to the idea of marriage equality.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

Beginning with 1972’s “The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie,” Flo & Eddie released a series of increasingly facetious albums throughout the 1970s, but they had greater success singing harmonies for T. Rex and Cooper.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025

Bong walks a delicate line between being facetious and pulling his punches, and the script does sometimes fall to the latter side with some of its more trite resistance messaging.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2025

“I don’t mean to be facetious or disrespectful or a burden to the court,” he told the judge at the time.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2023

I don't know whether he was just trying to be facetious or if he actually worried that I walked around campus acting like a raving lunatic.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi