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facetious
What does facetious mean?
facetious (adjective): treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humor; flippant.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use facetious in a sentence?
- I was being facetious. (Tatoeba sentence #4999934 by CK, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce facetious?
/fəˈsiʃəs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does facetious come from?
From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (“jest, wit, humor”), from facētus (“witty, jocose, facetious”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “facetious” mean?
treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humor; flippant
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failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
Not quite: that's what delinquent means.
distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal, especially in a hideous way
Not quite: that's what grotesque means.
having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation
Not quite: that's what monolithic means.
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