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Значения термина facetious на английском

Cleverly amusing in tone.

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Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour.

Использование термина facetious на английском
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Ralph had usually treated it facetiously; but present circumstances proscribed the facetious.
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1
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Sir, - Your report of August 12th was inappropriately facetious and inaccurate.
The Irish Times
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The termination of the miseries of this facetious genius was now approaching.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1
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But the honorable member was inclined to be facetious on the subject.
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845
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Straight across the tops of two columns it ran, a facetious caption:
North of Fifty-Three
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From most guys, the answer would have been nothing short of facetious.
Cooking Up Murder
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His attempt to sound facetious was not altogether convincing, and nobody smiled.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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But Esther was far from giving the proposal so facetious a reception.
The Prairie
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Does the facetious Lucilius make no alterations in the tragedies of Accius?
The Works of Horace
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After this facetious threat he paid no further attention to the messenger.
Jim Cummings; Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery
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Only Maulo, the camp jester, hurled a facetious comment at the corpse.
The Leopard Woman
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Occasionally, and very carefully, the facetious sociologist administered a real bruising blow.
The Night-Born
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Then came another of my devils-myfacetious devil-andhe made me laugh.
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : ("The Valley of the Shadow")
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That night Aurora-surnamed Australis by a facetious digger-wasparticularly attentive to Done.
In the Roaring Fifties
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Then, convinced at last, he took alarm, and dropped his facetious attitude.
The Rules of the Game
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His face expressed a facetious weariness, but his shoulders, too, were swaying.
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
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