Sentence examples for facetious remarks from inspiring English sources
The phrase "facetious remarks" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when referring to comments made in a joking or playful manner, often when the subject is serious. Example: "His facetious remarks during the meeting were not well received by the management."
Before Charles gets into Henry's office he makes a number of facetious remarks to employees.
Specifically, she made two facetious remarks suggesting that all debate about both climate change and God's relationship to the origins of biological life were scientifically settled.
Later, when Chatani was asked if the lack of models on South Beach had any effect on nightlife, he got laughs with facetious remarks about how "model babies" inspired him to open nightclubs in the first place, and again when he insisted "model babies" were coming back.
Everyone laughed, even linebacker Jack Golden, the object of Fassel's facetious remark to the team.
The day I moved in, she made a facetious remark to my friend about ethnic cooking, which she said "ruins your pots and makes your tummy run".
Leo Andrew Scottthe the playwright, and Otto (Tom Burke), the artist, find abundant merriment in that notion, collapsing drunkenly upon one another at the end of the second act with Leo's apparently facetious remark, "We're going to be awfully, awfully lonely".
Asked about the claim by the former Liberal MP Lord Alton that he had "facetiously" said Smith's behaviour was no different to conduct at public schools, Steel said: "You say it is a facetious remark.
This facetious remark, Curtiss asserts, led Carré to end the opera with the fishermen's tents ablaze as Leila and Nadir make their escape.
"That is only a half-facetious comment.
And there were a couple of remarks I made in a very off-hand, facetious, jokey way, "What if the fanboys don't like you?" "Well, they can all line up and...," you know.
