Sentence examples for somewhat facetious from inspiring English sources
He is being only somewhat facetious.
In January 1995, Gov. Christie Whitman kept a somewhat facetious campaign promise to the radio personality Howard Stern.
Even in a slump, he needs to start smiling again.Grace under pressureIn truth, Bagehot's question about Mr Cameron's leadership was somewhat facetious.
The Lorenz model's twin-lobed shape gave rise to the somewhat facetious "butterfly effect" metaphor: The flapping of a butterfly's wings in China today may cause a tornado in Kansas tomorrow.
"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.
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.
That is only a slightly facetious statement.
We're being facetious, but only slightly.
There's no reason to believe he was being facetious, and indeed if you turn off the sound in a Chaplin movie the action is somewhat flat.
Somewhat bewildered, somewhat angry, she and two other young lawyers who were also hired as independent contractors jokingly formed what they called the "Transient Workers Union," with the facetious motto, "The union makes us not so weak".
