facetious
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++fa·ce·tious /fəˈsiːʃəs/ adjective JOKING/NOT SERIOUSsaying things that are intended to be clever and funny but are really silly and annoying 乱开玩笑的 Don’t be so facetious! 别这么乱开玩笑！ facetious comments 不当的戏谑评论 —facetiously adverb —facetiousness noun [uncountable]
Examples from the Corpus
facetious• Unfortunately, there's only room to quote the most pertinent, ie least facetious.• We can be facetious about the examples that I am using.• And then he said something facetious, and she stepped away from him.• In one facetious article he promised to show the government how to double the number of jobs in the railroad industry.• He was being facetious, at least in part.• The speech saying drug users should be shot was clearly facetious, but it contained a serious point.• At the risk of sounding facetious, I have to ask who really cares about all this?• The newspaper ended on a slightly facetious note: Can anybody commit a forgery against himself?• I rang through and I got some old berk being facetious on an Ansaphone.Origin facetious (1500-1600) French facétieux, from facétie “joke”fa·ce·tious adjectiveChineseSyllable
things Corpus saying clever are to intended that be
facetious
fa‧ce‧tious /fəˈsiːʃəs/
adjective
Don’t be so facetious!
facetious comments
—facetiously adverb
—facetiousness noun [uncountable]
fa‧ce‧tious /fəˈsiːʃəs/
adjective Date: 1500-1600
Language: French
Origin: facétieux, from facétie 'joke'
saying things that are intended to be clever and funny but are really silly and annoying:Language: French
Origin: facétieux, from facétie 'joke'
—facetiously adverb
—facetiousness noun [uncountable]