单词	facetiousness
释义	facetiousfa‧ce‧tious /fəˈsiːʃəs/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINfacetious Origin: 1500-1600 French facétieux, from facétie ‘joke’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES At the risk of sounding facetious, I have to ask who really cares about all this? The speech saying drug users should be shot was clearly facetious, but it contained a serious point. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And then he said something facetious, and she stepped away from him. He was being facetious, at least in part. I rang through and I got some old berk being facetious on an Ansaphone. In one facetious article he promised to show the government how to double the number of jobs in the railroad industry. The newspaper ended on a slightly facetious note: Can anybody commit a forgery against himself? Unfortunately, there's only room to quote the most pertinent, ie least facetious. We can be facetious about the examples that I am using. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatornot behaving or speaking seriously► flippant not being serious about something that should be taken seriously, so that people think you do not care: · People ask me if I'm related to him, and my answer is usually a flippant "No, but I wish I were."· When asked what is wrong with the economy, analysts reply "Not enough money." This answer is not as flippant as it sounds.· Sorry if that sounded flippant or heartless - it wasn't meant to be. ► playful actions or behaviour that are playful are not serious, but they are fun and friendly: · He gave me a playful slap on the shoulder.· She tried to sound playful but somehow the words came out the wrong way. ► facetious making jokes or trying to be funny in a clever or unkind way that people think is annoying: · At the risk of sounding facetious, who really cares about what happens?· The speech saying drug users should be shot was clearly facetious, but it contained a serious point. ► tongue-in-cheek a remark, statement etc that is tongue-in-cheek is intended as a joke but is said or written in a serious or sincere way: · His tongue-in-cheek articles are brilliantly funny and very political.· "This just shows you what a great coach I am," said Braden, tongue-in-cheek. saying things that are intended to be clever and funny but are really silly and annoying:  Don’t be so facetious! facetious comments—facetiously adverb—facetiousness noun [uncountable]
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