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What does facetious mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word facetious? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.
  2. Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
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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.
This slightly facetious example is an illustration of a problem that is causing some real teeth-gnashing.
I realize he was likely being facetious with discussing how he's perfect, but it still amazes me that he'd say it.
Woodward ended the questioning session with facetious conjectures for the outcome of the upcoming election.
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.
In the question I asked of the previous speaker, I was not being facetious.

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