(a.) Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion.
(a.) Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply.
Example Sentences:
(1) This, in turn, prompted an apology from the director, along with a (possibly facetious) denial that he was "a Nazi".
(2) He is very facetious and constantly observing the crowd… His character is very spontaneous, which I am but, at the same time, when I prepare a spectacle, I leave nothing to chance, I am very methodical.
(3) There are side-effects associated with inhaled steroids, which are the most commonly prescribed preventative treatment, but if standard doses are used these are usually mild.” For his part, Bush admitted his language may have been “facetious”.
(4) I obviously missed the point if they were horrified – it was funny and a little facetious."
(5) The tweet was "obviously facetious" and "a parody", he added.
(6) It was the first time that the men's and women's game had unified and instead we are talking about someone who we paid to come in as entertainment and be facetious about something we stand vehemently against so I apologise for that.
(7) "He looks permanently pink and facetious, as though life is one big public-school prank," writes the former Labour MP Chris Mullin, usually quite forgiving towards Tories, in his diaries for December 2010.
(8) Numerous articles have appeared in the English literature, but we have been able to find only two editorials in semi-facetious vein in the South African Medical Journal over the last 20 years.
(9) Heard’s barrister, Paula Morreau, said: “Obviously it’s foreshadowed and they wanted to attempt to … ” before White interjected to say she was “just being facetious”.
(10) Wodehouse was what Orwell called "a political innocent", someone whose essential stupidity about politics - "his mild facetiousness covering an unthinking acceptance [of the world he inhabited]" - rescued him from the charge of the worst sorts of hypocrisy.
(11) Sometimes …) If we follow the form, naturally there'll be the ritual feast, the haggis piped in, addressed, sacrificed and served, the traditional speeches, the Address to the Lassies, the Reply, the Immortal Memory, which is supposed to skip the facetiousness and meditate on some aspect of the poet's life and his work.
(12) Asked about the claim by the former Liberal MP Lord Alton that he had "facetiously" said Smith's behaviour was no different to conduct at public schools, Steel said: "You say it is a facetious remark.
(13) The facetiousness couldn't obscure the truism: five months after Chua's piece, Time magazine published an article titled " Why do we fear a rising China ?"
(14) (Parody and doggerel and facetiousness are big features of Burns suppers.
(15) "We have a very facetious Liverpool sense of humour, laughing at things which are stupid," says Wells.
(16) You can ask a facetious question too – just be sure to keep it respectful.
(17) When I say “know-nothing,” I’m not being facetious or hyperbolic.
(18) Twain understood publicity so well that he was merely amused when Huck Finn was banned by libraries across the US; when it was banned in Omaha, Nebraska, for example, he sent a telegram to the local newspaper, observing facetiously: "I am tearfully afraid this noise is doing much harm.
(19) A facetious comparison, maybe, but shouldn’t home crowds give Scottish comics an advantage?
(20) He said: “If the last few weeks tell us anything: it is rarely a help to mention Hitler in support of an argument by an ex-mayor of London.” Paddy Ashdown, the former Lib Dem leader, said Johnson was “yet another tuppenny tin-pot imitation Churchill promising to ‘fight them on the beaches’ while weakening our defences and wrecking our economy.” Owen Smith, a Labour shadow cabinet minister, said Johnson was “a cut-rate Donald Trump.” “It’s a ridiculous and facetious comment by a man who is apt to make ridiculous and facetious comments,” Smith told LBC.
Gibe
Definition:
(v. i.) To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.
(v. i.) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to mock.
(n.) An expression of sarcastic scorn; a sarcastic jest; a scoff; a taunt; a sneer.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the government has dismissed environmental concerns about Gibe III.
(2) Why would any member of the opposition wish to undermine this with cheap gibes, straight from the bar stool?
(3) And in a sign that it intends pursuing its mega dam strategy – and avoiding having environmental groups damage efforts at getting funding from international lenders, as has happened with Gibe III – it is looking east for help.
(4) Much of the money goes on mean-spirited negative campaigning of the kind that saw off the Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in the 2011 election with gibes about his years away from Canada.
(5) The 93-mile long reservoir created by Gibe III will stretch to the tail of the 420MW Gibe II power project, which was opened in January by the Italian construction company Salini.
(6) Danger dams Ethiopia The Gibe III dam on the Omo river in Ethiopia threatens about 200,000 people from eight tribes in the Lower Omo valley.
(7) With a price tag of €1.55bn (£1.39bn), Gibe III was always going to require external credit.
(8) At least 200,000 people from eight tribes are threatened and a further 200,000 people will be adversely affected by the Gibe III dam on the Omo river in Ethiopia .
(9) Every statistician is familiar with the tedious “Lies, damned lies, and statistics” gibe, but the economist, writer and presenter of Radio 4’s More or Less , Tim Harford, has identified the habit of some politicians as not so much lying – to lie means having some knowledge of the truth – as “bullshitting”: a carefree disregard of whether the number is appropriate or not.
(10) According to the Oakland Institute, these groups' existence is under "serious threat" as they are forced off their land to make way for the Gibe III hydroelectric dam project, road-building and commercial investors.
(11) China's biggest state bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China , may fund Gibe III in Ethiopia, to be Africa's tallest.
(12) Sinohydro had already agreed to build the 1,600MW Gibe IV dam further down the Omo, a project sure to generate further controversy.
(13) The author gibes a review of suicide problems in Norway.
(14) Nor would it be inappropriate since Hope, whom Time magazine once called "an American folk figure", was on intimate terms with every American president since Harry Truman, at all of whom he directed inoffensive gibes.
(15) At 243 metres the Gibe III dam will be the highest on the continent, a controversial centrepiece of Ethiopia's extraordinary multibillion-pound hydroelectric boom.
(16) Gibe III, which will have a generating capacity of 1,870MW – double what was available in all of Ethiopia last year – has sparked the greatest opposition.