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Meanings of facetious remarks in English

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Usage of facetious remarks in English
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It was sent collect, which accounts perhaps for the facetious remarks which it contained.
The Happy Family
2
Well-dressed church-goers gazed curiously at the pair, and many facetious remarks were bandied about.
The Statesmen Snowbound
3
They talked back to subscribers, saucing off, uttering facetious remarks, and generally giving lip.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
4
The facetious remarks of the toastmaster do not explain my reasons for engaging in farming.
Watch Yourself Go By
5
Before Charles gets into Henry's office he makes a number of facetious remarks to employees.
The new yorker
6
They began to laugh and to make facetious remarks.
Wild Kitty
7
BEFORE making general facetious remarks about the third film in Fox's glacially (get it?)
The Irish Times
8
A group of some twenty men had collected, and they soon began to make facetious remarks.
The Land of the Black Mountain: The Adventures of Two Englishmen...
9
I heard Mifflin's shrill, slightly nasal voice making facetious remarks as he passed out the cards.
Parnassus on Wheels
10
From either bank he and his anxious struggling assistants were greeted with ironic cheers and facetious remarks.
The Blazed Trail
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Tom was making facetious remarks about south-west gales, and his two elder sisters were angrily remonstrating with him.
The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnic...
12
Jeffreys, as indeed it was intended, heard these facetious remarks on his strange toilet, and his brow grew heavy.
A Dog with a Bad Name
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These, together with other facetious remarks, made Frank so ashamed and confused that he could not say a word.
The Drummer Boy
14
Then he walked down the aisle with it, the dog meantime yelling with supernatural energy and the Sunday-school boys making facetious remarks.
Elbow-Room: A Novel Without a Plot
15
We talked English, which I think rather pleased him, for he made some facetious remarks on things and people and actually laughed.
The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
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Moriarty now paused for a moment in his advance to make some more sneering, facetious remarks, that he obviously regarded as hilariously funny.
The mandala of sherlock holmes: the missing years
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