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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At the risk of sounding facetious , I have to ask who really cares about all this?
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The speech saying drug users should be shot was clearly facetious , but it contained a serious point.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And then he said something facetious , and she stepped away from him.
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He was being facetious , at least in part.
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I rang through and I got some old berk being facetious on an Ansaphone.
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In one facetious article he promised to show the government how to double the number of jobs in the railroad industry.
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The newspaper ended on a slightly facetious note: Can anybody commit a forgery against himself?
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Unfortunately, there's only room to quote the most pertinent, ie least facetious .
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We can be facetious about the examples that I am using.