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Facetious   /fəsˈiʃəs/   Listen
adjective
Facetious  adj.  
1.
Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion.
2.
Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply.





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"Facetious" Quotes from Famous Books



... of comparative anatomy," said Tiffles to Marcus (in facetious allusion to the deadheads), "but decidedly bad ...
— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton
... of verse picked out of long poems, and violently forced from their context; and also a few facetious "Answers to Correspondents," mangled in the same way. Certainly any publication could be condemned on this plan. The Bible itself might be ...
— Prisoner for Blasphemy • G. W. [George William] Foote
... manner, which he afterwards much improved by a courtly education; and, as his person was well-made and gracefull, so he took care to sett it off by all the ornaments and luxury of dress. He was of a sweet temper, and good-natured. His witt lively and sparkeling, and his humour pleasant and facetious. He loved books, and acquired the languages with great facility, whereby he cultivated and enriched his understanding with all manner of learning, but especially the belles lettres; add to this, a natural elegancy of expression, and ane inexhaustible fancy, which, on ...
— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 - Volume II. • Mrs. Thomson
... Salmo Salar is facetious about the destruction of the roe by insects, and says, "because an aquatic insect will devour a minnow's egg, which is not as large as a pin's head, we have no right to infer that it will devour that of a Salmon, which is ...
— Essays in Natural History and Agriculture • Thomas Garnett
... at her (she is very good in allowing me to do so without taking offence), and told her, in my facetious way, that she ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Detective Stories • Various


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