Cleverly amusing in tone.
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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:
1 It's very tongue - in - cheek social comment but it's still social comment, he said.
2 He claims, tongue - in - cheek , that he could patent such a product next year.
3 However Oliver also lavishes praise on Australia during the undoubtedly tongue - in - cheek podcast.
4 Other attempts to profit from Apple's public relations fiasco were more tongue - in - cheek .
5 Mr Stenson has since apologised to all bloggers in a tongue - in - cheek post.
1 He looked up at the goggling eyes; he heard the bantering voice:
2 She was perfectly impenetrable to the bantering tone in which he spoke.
3 Mr. Masterman attacked her at once in a sort of bantering way.
4 Losing patience, they turned to Pinocchio and said in a bantering tone:
5 After saluting me with ceremonious politeness, he said in a bantering tone:
6 All about him there was the bantering talk of horsemen and grooms.
7 The find startled Inspector Chippenfield out of his air of bantering superiority.
8 She replied in a bantering tone, only half hiding a hurt undernote.
9 Suddenly the bantering gravity with which he spoke fell away from him.
10 Once outside, she suddenly dropped her bantering manner and said quite earnestly:
11 His spirits, which had been astonishingly light during their bantering exchange, sank.
12 His bantering tone, in speaking of his own position, had been successful.
13 It conceals-ashe was wont to do-strongfeeling under the bantering tone.
14 Ms Matafeo and Mr Waititi are already bantering about the movie online.
15 Instantly his attitude of good-natured bantering and pompous boastfulness dropped from him.
16 She is at once passionate, sensuous, politically dutiful, bantering and acutely perceptive.
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