Synonyms
Examples for "facetious"
Examples for "facetious"
1
Ralph had usually treated it facetiously; but present circumstances proscribed the facetious.
2
Sir, - Your report of August 12th was inappropriately facetious and inaccurate.
3
The termination of the miseries of this facetious genius was now approaching.
4
But the honorable member was inclined to be facetious on the subject.
5
Straight across the tops of two columns it ran, a facetious caption:
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She didn't respond to his flippant comment or even glance his way.
2
In their place she found only exceeding worldliness, or the flippant commonplace.
3
The first month, he was flippant and treated the whole thing lightly.
4
To make it all the worse this stranger had been decidedly flippant.
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People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student.
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Our American atmosphere is vocal with the flippant loquacity of half knowledge.
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Impertinent and flippant, I was universally hailed an original and a wit.
8
The man who reverses the Fifth flippant jester, but a philosophic thinker.
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It is very flippant, but you see I am honest about it.
10
I would have preferred to tell you in person. He sounded flippant.
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Henslow had been pleasant enough, but a little flippant after the election.
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But now she felt oddly serious and unlike her usual flippant self.
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If they are apt to be flippant and bitter, so was I.
14
If a fourth-class power insults our flag we accept a flippant apology.
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Her former flippant indifference to his remonstrances now changed into abject fear.
16
To that end she answered every sentimental remark with a flippant one.
