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facetious

adjective.
Treating important matters with humor that is not appropriate; being flippant.
Synonyms:
flippant
flip
glib
frivolous
tongue-in-cheek
waggish
whimsical
joking
jokey
jesting
jocular
playful
roguish
impish
teasing
arch
mischievous
puckish
Example sentences containing facetious from English sources
But he reiterated that won't happen after realizing his facetious remarks could be misconstrued.
Chicago Tribune
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He makes a facetious speech about mad cow disease and upsets beef farmers in his constituency.
The Guardian
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Within seconds of making this statement, Anderson recanted, claiming that he was being facetious.
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I'm being facetious of course in characterising her this way, but only a little.
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I'm happy to be described as a comic novelist but I have dark undercurrents beneath the flippant and facetious surface.
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In some cases, the evidence was genuinely alarming, while others featured threats that may have been idle or facetious.
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Yes, I know this sounds like an incredibly facetious thing to say.
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This may end up being a facetious Slack profile picture one day.
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One woman even agreed with Wood's facetious suggestion that th reputation was created by other cities jealous of Boston's success in professional sports.
Boston.com
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Jones then answered White's seemingly facetious recommendation to drop down to the middleweight division.
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I'm being intentionally facetious, and for many people these archaic traditions no longer represent the things they once did.
Metro UK
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The challenge will test his cheery demeanour and facetious sense of humour, much mocked on social media but deployed to mask a complex personality.
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That is probably a little facetious, but if you have the money, you've earned the ability to enjoy some of it.
Forbes
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I'm being facetious because it's fashionable to roll the eyes and decry the dinner party.
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OK, so I'm being deliberately facetious here, but old habits die hard.
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