Sentence examples for slightly facetious from inspiring English sources

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Saville says Yamamoto didn't even flinch at what he calls his "slightly facetious stance".

"I felt honored," Mr. Fleiss said, not sounding even slightly facetious.

Waiting for her flight, Presser blogged about the yoga class in a slightly facetious manner.

The statement may sound slightly facetious, but Mr. Hartke means it.

The story is told in the same slightly facetious, I-know-more-than-you-do tone adopted by the narrators of Lars von Trier's allegories, or by Alfred Hitchcock.

I'm being only slightly facetious here — obviously short notice makes it hard to do justice to a talent like Houston's, and several entertainers, including the host, LL Cool J, made explicit mention of Houston.

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He is being only somewhat facetious.

The other thing that slightly discomforts me about the idea of Gordon Levitt playing the main villain – and I'm willing to admit it may be a somewhat facetious concern – is that he bears more than a passing resemblance to the late Heath Ledger, so memorable as The Joker.

She was being somewhat facetious.

That's being somewhat facetious.

Hot Chip softly pop up with their second album of pleasantly presented, slightly silly, possibly facetious homework.

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