Sentence examples for as facetious as from inspiring English sources

This observation is not as facetious as it may seem.

That's not quite as facetious as it sounds – all three games were away from home.

This question is not as facetious as it might at first seem.

"I was being about as facetious as one could be," Mr. Dobbs said in an interview Tuesday as he prepared for his nightly broadcast, "Lou Dobbs Tonight".

This is neither as facetious nor as trivial as it may sound.

Dogville is not shallow and facetious like many other of von Trier's films, or at least not as shallow and as facetious, and there are good performances, powerful moments.

Fifteen years later, he would publish a powerful dissenting opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick, the decision that rejected as "facetious" the claim that the Constitution protects gay relationships from criminal prosecution.

Some tapes, testimony showed, included other derogatory comments about Jews and references to the Holocaust -- all by Mrs. Quigley -- which the Quigleys' lawyer, Jay S. Horowitz, characterized in court papers as "facetious or sarcastic".

It's as facetious and flimsy a position on which to build an argument as suggesting that if a single brick in the Great Pyramid of Giza cracks, the entire thing might as well be dynamited.

The more the names of mental illnesses occur in our conversations as facetious self-diagnoses and misappropriated adjectives, the more difficult we make it for those with clinical diagnoses to speak out and be heard.

He's being facetious, as he often is in this short, eager-to-please research memoir.