Facetious

Quick meaning: Facetious is an adjective meaning Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.

Meaning

Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.

More Meanings

1. Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
2. (Of an idea or statement) humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.

Example Sentences

Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious.

Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.

Glamour for its own sake is not something I have ever been particularly interested in,” Stella McCartney said backstage after her catwalk show. Which could sound like a facetious statement from a fashion designer who was, at that moment, standing among the marble-slabbed floors, elaborately frescoed ceilings and giant chandeliers of the Palais Garnier opera house, where the show was staged.

Synonyms for facetious

Depending on context, synonyms include tongue-in-cheek, humorous, bantering, humourous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tongue-in-cheek, humourous, humorous, bantering, glib, jokeful.

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