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/fəˈsiːʃəs/ · adjective
Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant..
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.
Use facetious when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Facetious means Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant..
Common synonyms include tongue-in-cheek, humorous, bantering, humourous.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious.
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