facetious
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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
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
He then offered a facetious answer to his own question.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2023
It’s not entirely clear whether Barr was being serious, or if she was being facetious and purposely saying something absurd to prove some kind of point about “truth.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2023
French composers of the melodramatic grand opera school -Jules Massenet and Charles Gounod, for example - were just as much a target for his often facetious pen.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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