Results for facetious
Definitions of facetious:
part of speech: noun
part of speech: adjective
Sprightly with witand good- humour; gay; full of pleasantry; jocular.
part of speech: adjective
part of speech: adjective
Usage examples for facetious:
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Jack was going to make a facetious remark, when the old man murmured as if thinking aloud: Seven deaths, five of them suicides.
"Death Points a Finger", Will Levinrew -
She drank tea, and pulled herself together for a lively description of the wheel- locking and the subsequent conversation, a bright ridiculous account which made the affair happen by implication on the high road and not in a byeway, and was adorned with every facetious ornament that seemed likely to get a laugh from the children.
"Marriage", H. G. Wells -
This is soon done, said the old gentleman, taking my arm with a sort of sly humour, as if he were about to relate something facetious against foot, a charge is a menace; if they break, we profit by it; if they stand, we get out of the scrape as well as we can.
"Recollections of Europe", J. Fenimore Cooper