Sentence examples for to be facetious from inspiring English sources

I don't mean to be facetious.

COMEY: I don't mean to be facetious.

He was not trying to be facetious.

Not to be facetious about it.

And that is not to be facetious.

I don't say this to be facetious.

It would be facetious to deny the plight of many more Ahmeds who are too afraid to voice their mistreatment, or who simply believe it's normal to be mistreated.

But let's not be facetious.

This remark is not meant to be entirely facetious.

Now, all of a sudden – I don't want to be too facetious – but they have seen the lord.

Heard's barrister, Paula Morreau, said: "Obviously it's foreshadowed and they wanted to attempt to … " before White interjected to say she was "just being facetious".