How To Use facetiously In A Sentence
- He developed the idea facetiously, whilst John regarded him as he might have watched a performing monkey. New Grub Street
- I meant it facetiously
- The Eastern mace is well known to English collectors, it is always of metal, and mostly of steel, with a short handle like our facetiously called life-preterver The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Well, I dunno," said Grandpa Walker, facetiously, balancing a good-sized morsel of food carefully on the blade of his knife, "that depen's on wuther ye're willin 'to take pot-luck with us or not. The Flag
- I had posted this link facetiously but see that some commenters, both pro and con, are taking it more seriously.
- Suggesting it as to people whom you do dislike, even if you suggest it facetiously, is mean-spirited.
- A learned commentator gives us what he facetiously calls a lullaby note on this. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 386, August 22, 1829
- Finding the facts and authorship of classic offenses, such as the thousands or even millions of petty thefts committed by mankind traditionally, goes almost unnoticed, since these are misdemeanors of "small criminals" that are facetiously and classically pointed out by society as "lowlife" crimes ... Home
- I should like to have you opposite me in any mood, whether the facetiously discursive, the metaphysically discursive, the personally confidential, or the jadedly CURSIVE and argumentative -- so that the oyster-shells which enclose my being might slowly turn open on their rigid hinges under the radiation, and the critter within loll out his dried-up gills into the circumfused ichor of life, till they grow so fat as not to know themselves again. Familiar Letters of William James I
- [2] Witness his well known pun on the name of his adversary Vigilantius, whom he calls facetiously Dormitantius. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes
