Sentence examples for facetious way from inspiring English sources

"She knows more — and I don't mean that in a facetious way.

I liked that – in my transgenerationally facetious way: my mother had passed a generous dose of Jewish antisemitism down to me, and along with it this Jewish disease had been bred in the bone.

In his characteristically facetious way, Marx, having just cited a very lengthy passage from Martin Luther (1483 1546) in which Luther inveighs against usurers as the greatest enemies of mankind after the devil himself, says that original sin is, alas, to be found everywhere: the original sin is accumulation.

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.

"We also fail to report that the experimenters wore clothes and refrained from smoking throughout the session", Mitchell points out, and although somewhat facetious, in a way I think this is a fair point to make.

(That's "facetious," by the way).

Facebook's regulations say it allows content "threatening or calling for violence in facetious and non-serious ways" and removes posts only when there is "a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety".

She begins chirpily and stays that way, answering even facetious questions with a desire to provide whatever's required.

That modest request to "think for a second" is either facetious, rhetorical, or Wallace's way of flattering his readers by attributing to them mental processing speeds that approach what one suspects is his own writing speed.

The comments may have been partly facetious, but they were not interpreted that way here.

Clarke deliberately runs two yards out of his way to make a rather facetious point to the umpires after the next ball.