| The city is boisterous, its natives felicitously facetious, its commerce flourishing. |
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| This slightly facetious example is an illustration of a problem that is causing some real teeth-gnashing. |
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| Apparently, she isn't being facetious at all, and it was a serious question. |
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| It was instead a facetious response to an anticipated tease in an email between friends. |
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| But snobbishness is, in its way, a serious subject, and another, less facetious book could easily be written about it. |
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| Forgive me for being facetious in these desperately serious times, but sometimes ridicule is the only release from anger. |
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| I am not trying to be facetious, but would alternatives be more productive? |
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| I realize he was likely being facetious with discussing how he's perfect, but it still amazes me that he'd say it. |
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| Listening to his intonation as he discusses his films, it's hard to tell if he's being facetious or if he's dead serious about what he's saying. |
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| Woodward ended the questioning session with facetious conjectures for the outcome of the upcoming election. |
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| It sounds like a facetious question, but I mean it seriously. |
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| Mr President, first of all the Commissioner is being very facetious with his answers. |
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| He accompanied me across the Gentle Annies, as some facetious folk call the constantly recurring sandhills of the extreme northwestern corner of the colony. |
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| And to inspire you to thought, to an occasional smile, to facetious remarks or even to philosophizing over your own relationship with flying. |
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| I do not want to be too facetious, but the construction industry is collapsing. |
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| In the question I asked of the previous speaker, I was not being facetious. |
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| This is not a facetious question, but how many million years ago is the Russian interpretation of ownership relying on? |
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| Let everyone know, they are facetious, will never stand still, can skate like no one else, sliding rather than walking all the time. |
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| I don't want to be at all facetious, but all psychologists are not the same. |
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| I assure you that was a facetious comment about the ostrich caucus. |
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| You can take a sarcastic and facetious post like the last one, and turn it into an interesting discussion about the place of sport in our culture. |
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| You learn very soon never to tell a joke or make a facetious remark. |
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| The comment, however facetious, boomeranged against Sinclair. |
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| He was being a bit facetious, but the point holds true: currency depreciation rarely works and this is clearly demonstrated in the following chart. |
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| This observation is not as facetious as it may seem. |
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| Though objective and traditional in form, there is an undeniable sense of dramatic content in the cello sonata that evokes joyful, sarcastic and facetious imagery. |
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| While some destroyers of discussion pound away with heavy verbal artillery, others prefer to snipe at opposing parties with scorn, sarcasm, and facetious put-downs. |
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