Sentence examples similar to a facetious air from inspiring English sources
The facetious air quotes in the town motto might explain the appeal -- "Marathon, Texas: Where There's 'Nothing To Do.'" Jumpstarted in the late 1990s by J.P. Bryan, a multimillionaire set on reviving the gateway to the state's eerie national parks, the town owes much of its energy to Bryan's baby, the historic Gage Hotel.
Even the music has a facetious twist.
"It's a facetious name," said Mrs. Levine.
Does George Bush possess a disarming grin, or a facetious smirk?
A facetious question to which, obviously, the answer is no.
Steven Soderbergh's new film, The Informant!, is a facetious and half-baked affair.
"She knows more — and I don't mean that in a facetious way.
It's all josh and spoof, of course — a facetious industrial product.
It sounds like a facetious question, but I mean it seriously.
Known for her spontaneous sense of humor, Kiki loved a pun nearly as much as a facetious barb.
At the time I regarded it as a glib answer to a facetious question.
