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facetiousness

noun as in drollery

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The brazen facetiousness of such viral posts was central to how Kent’s horror film has circulated within extremely online circles in the years that followed.

Elcheson recalled incorrectly thinking other people were being humorous when in fact they were expressing facetiousness.

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Facetiousness aside, I can’t be alone in feeling that I’ve entered the end stage of the Covid-19 Twilight Zone.

Typically for me, back then, this was a case of facetiousness disguising earnestness.

I used to be told, in all seriousness, to read the opinion sections of major newspapers as an edifying activity I explain this, partly out of facetiousness, but partly because I belong to the last generation to remember the age of the opinionators.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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