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Emma Roberts is engaged to boyfriend Cody John, making the announcement social-media official to facetiously beat her mother to the punch.

“I heard they got six new Black members — congrats to them,” Carmichael said facetiously.

Andrea and I were to meet on May 1, so when I forwarded the restaurant confirmation, I facetiously suggested we should wear flowers or vine leaves in our hair, it being May Day and all.

The word “housedaddies,” referring facetiously to fathers who help in the home, appeared for the first time in The Times yesterday.

That 27-point threshold can facetiously be described as the Keyes Constant, or Crazification Factor, meaning the amount of support a joke candidate of one of the major parties is likely to obtain.