Sentence examples for only partly facetious from inspiring English sources

"I'm only partly facetious.

The Paris avant-garde's only partly facetious embrace of Rousseau, backed by Picasso and promoted by Guillaume Apollinaire, was the climax of its trashing of academic qualifications which had begun in the eighteen-eighties, when Paul Gauguin, in his thirties, abandoned a job in the stock market to devote himself to painting.

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

But he was a responsible husband and father -- and at least partly facetious.

Only partly.

It only partly succeeded.

But only partly.

I was only partly right.

That is only partly fair.

Hughes is only partly right.

That's only partly true.