facetious

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"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."

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  1. adjective Playfully jocular; humorous: facetious remarks.

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  • 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
  • Glinnes recognized Janno Akadie the mentor, whom he remembered as voluble, facetious, at times mordant or even malicious, and never at a loss for an epigram, an allusion, a profundity, which impressed many but irked Jut Hulden. —  Trullion: Alastor 2262
  • 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
  • Bureaucracy doesn't usually move that quickly. —  Mirage
 

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  1. French facétieux, from facétie, jest, from Latin facētia, from facētus, witty.

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/ (fə-sēˈshəs)/
ahd pronounces "facetious"
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