Sentence examples for being facetious about from inspiring English sources

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Anyways, lest it seem that I am being facetious about a serious issue here, being wrong sucks.

Shaw wasn't being facetious about the future of a UCLA team that finished the season with a 3-9 record.

[But you hadn't been being facetious about the "dragging me around" part--I'd understood what you'd meant.

I'm obviously being facetious about the latter two, but perhaps the fight-or-flight response doesn't even work that well in modern-day warfare, either.

We will remember the teachers, how Mr Whiteford is always being facetious about something and how Mr Mussen spreads inspirational 'Mussen' quotes before exams, a personal favourite being 'If it's meant to be, then it's up to me'.

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Not to be facetious about it.

Glibness creeps in: his comments about the reductiveness of the left/right polarity are fair enough, but why be facetious about the Greens?

Not to be facetious about such an amazing composition, one whose beauties (longueurs is a word that doesn't even apply) are still slowly revealing themselves, from performance to performance.

Stop being facetious, mom")., worry about whether Monsanto got a hold of their Granny Smiths, and can stay in tree pose longer than you can meditate, it makes you question the definition of today's childhood and reaffirm your definition of "little jacka$$." You feel you're doing mankind a favor by not contributing to the Dakota Fannings of the world.

But then, he was so incredibly nice (genuinely – I am not being facetious here) that I finally told him about the shirt.

He was being facetious.

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