FACETIOUS in a Sentence
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Example sentences for FACETIOUS, such as:
1. Instead, the crowd began sarcastically to cheer him on and showered him with facetious advice.
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Meanings and Examples of FACETIOUS
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facetious
a. cleverly amusing in tone
Classic Sentence:
1 However, he took affairs as coolly as it was in human nature to do, and entertained himself with the facetious idea of the training more than once.
2 But, making Oliver cry, Noah attempted to be more facetious still; and in his attempt, did what many sometimes do to this day, when they want to be funny.
3 With this irrepressible ebullition of mirth, Master Bates laid himself flat on the floor: and kicked convulsively for five minutes, in an ectasy of facetious joy.
4 This altogether admirable tradition rules the vaudeville stage, facetious illustrators, and syndicated newspaper humor, but out of actual life it passed forty years ago.
5 With the passionate song of the bullets and the banshee shrieks of shells were mingled loud catcalls and bits of facetious advice concerning places of safety.
Example Sentence:
1 Instead, the crowd began sarcastically to cheer him on and showered him with facetious advice.