Facetious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FACETIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• playfully jocular; humorous
• treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant
• funny or trying to be funny, esp at inappropriate times
• Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion.
• Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply.
• cleverly amusing in tone
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• joking or jesting often inappropriately; waggish

Words related to FACETIOUS

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Words that contain FACETIOUS

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How to use FACETIOUS in a sentence

• Such a dance is a questioning bee, a collision of wits on the part of two really facetious Indians.
• We know now, moreover, that an undercurrent of circumstance existed which did not even ripple the surface of that apparently facetious brutality hurled at J.
• The friends of the new knight were inclined to banter him, and proposed his health at a dinner in facetious terms.
• A man with an unusually small head, diminutive form, and crooked legs tried, at my expense, to be witty and facetious.
• He always had something facetious to say to the people with whom he traded.
• At this moment, notwithstanding the fatality that had taken place, nothing could be more truly comical and facetious than the appearance of the field of battle.
• This amused him greatly and he made some facetious observations, which determined me to actually perform the trip on foot.
• With this facetious exception, Sandy had been undisturbed.
• Rymer had been wise enough to keep these facetious gentlemen at their proper distance.
• The Italian Polydore Vergil, who, residing here, had clearer notions of this facetious personage, considered the Christmas Prince as peculiar to our country.
• He was an orthodox preacher, a man of severe virtue, a ready and facetious wit.
• Doubtless the squire, or some one else, would have attempted a facetious reply to Mr.
• From what I hear every day, I imagine that the battalions will be far more likely to hang the editor of this facetious paper than to take his advice.
• The Hindoo who is at pains to learn and use English encounters something uncommonly like hatred disguised in a facetious form.
• A stir of annoyance ran through the gathering, here grave, there facetious, but it stopped short as a new figure moved quietly past Ramsey and stood beside the clerk.
• We must, however reluctantly, leave such romantic legends and facetious chronicles, and learn more practical lessons from the sober and instructive page of history.
• I proposed sending the document to certain chosen spirits in our own country, who were pleased to be facetious concerning our devotion to Scotland.
• At these words a sufficiently facetious grimace passed over the features of the late Duke.
• But the honorable member was inclined to be facetious on the subject.
• Tubbs had essayed to be facetious on the matter, but I had coldly quenched him.
• The former wail and moan, the latter are facetious.
• He was a short round man, with a grizzled head, small facetious eyes and a large and credulous smile.
• Except at times, when he is lamenting the absence of his family and friends, he is cheerful, often facetious, and very intelligent.
• Then he walked down the aisle with it, the dog meantime yelling with supernatural energy and the Sunday-school boys making facetious remarks.
• As he passes by, facetious persons pull what is left of his tail.
• She glanced along a mantelpiece ranged with bronze chariots, silver vases, and china ornaments that were either facetious or eccentric.
• The climate too, was mild, and I had heard a great deal about it from my gifted and facetious friend Dr.
• Samuel Weller, of facetious memory, has told us of the girl who, having learned the alphabet, concluded that it was not worth going through so much to get so little.

Similar words containing FACETIOU without suffix s

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