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facetious
adjective as in tongue-in-cheek, kidding
Weak matches
- amusing
- blithe
- capering
- clever
- comic
- comical
- droll
- dry
- fanciful
- farcical
- flip
- flippant
- frivolous
- funny
- humorous
- indecorous
- ironic
- irreverent
- jesting
- jocose
- jocular
- joking
- joshing
- laughable
- ludicrous
- merry
- not serious
- playful
- pleasant
- pulling one's leg
- punning
- putting one on
- ridiculous
- salty
- sarcastic
- satirical
- smart
- sportive
- sprightly
- waggish
- whimsical
- wisecracking
- witty
- wry
Example Sentences
She doesn’t find much if anything to like about the field, which she sees as a hive of people aiming to take advantage of the innocent and unwary — the facetious subtitle of her Web3 website calls it “definitely not an enormous grift that’s pouring lighter fluid on our already smoldering planet.”
“And I’m not being facetious, like just bring extra underwear,” he said.
I’m being only half facetious.
It’s impossible to write those words without sounding facetious, but, reader: This time they fit.
He proposes strict control over human "breeding" on the facetious grounds that it's necessary for the betterment of humanity, which he mostly understands in extremely racist terms.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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