Facetiously is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FACETIOUSLY in dictionary:

ADVERB:
• FACETIOUS, playfully jocular; humorous
• not seriously
ADJECTIVE:
• treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• joking or jesting often inappropriately; waggish

Words related to FACETIOUSLY

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How to use FACETIOUSLY in a sentence

• Advice and reproof he always takes well, acknowledges their justice with good nature, and is even facetiously pleasant.
• He used to say facetiously, that they talked a good deal about liberty over the way, but he kept the goddess under his roof.
• Someone facetiously remarked that the Jews were the leading bankers in London until the Quakers crowded them out.
• Anthony, who, for her courage and executive ability, was facetiously called by William Henry Channing, the Napoleon of our struggle.
• Wright of Auburn was a frequent visitor at the center of the rebellion, as my sequestered cottage on Locust Hill was facetiously called.
• Sir Wilfrid Lawson, in his introductory remarks, facetiously alluded to the resolution adopted by the Conference as somewhat in advance of the ideas of the speaker of the evening.
• The car whipped a curve and drove into what the fat man from Calgary facetiously remarked upon as the tall uncut.
• Hence the pet name which I have facetiously given it.
• Then he facetiously raises one to each side of his head, and you have a figure that Jerome Bosch would have rejoiced to transfer to canvas.
• I believe that he or she has been given for a long time preceding the act to considering, sometimes facetiously, sometimes sentimentally, the advantages of oblivion.
• The lessons of Prodicus, whom he facetiously calls his master, are still running in the mind of Socrates.
• She opened the door, he stepped outside, and a cyclone happening to pass that way, facetiously caught him into the atmosphere and carried him away somewhere, she never knew where.
• The firelight in the tule-thatched hut of Manuel Sepulveda winked facetiously at the black fog that peered in at the open door.
• Tubbs had adopted a facetiously paternal manner toward me.
• I have had it pointed out, not altogether facetiously, that it is impossible to determine with accuracy what one woman, much less what any number of women, wants.
• And next, how does he live? Suppose, as people facetiously say, you were to tell me.
• So proficient was he in his Greek that some of the students facetiously called him Socrates, and some still more facetious even termed him Soc.

Similar words containing FACETIOUS without suffix ly

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