facetious

• The words “excellent in the quality he professes,” refer most likely to the Poet's acting; while the term facetious is used, apparently, not in the sense it now bears, but in that of felicitous or happy, as was common at that time. —  Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
• "Principle E: Except where the writer is being deliberately facetious, all phrases in a sentence, or sentences in a paragraph, should belong to the same vocabulary or level of language." —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
• He had meant to be a little facetious about the Greek words; but it was the slowly prepared and rather exasperating facetiousness of an ageing man, and he had dropped it listlessly, as though he himself had perceived this. —  Clayhanger
• Are they not either gods or the sons of gods Certainly they are But this is what I call the facetious riddle invented by you: the demigods or spirits are gods, and you say first that I do not believe in gods, and then again that I do believe in gods; that is, if I believe in demigods. —  Apology
• Bureaucracy doesn't usually move that quickly. —  Mirage

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