facetiously

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"The best fellow out," replied the little hero, facetiously, as he took the offered hand.

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  1. In a facetious manner; merrily; waggishly; wittily; with pleasantry. B. answers very facetiously: I must own that a command to lend, hoping for nothing again, and a command to borrow, without returning any thing again, seem very different commands. Waterland, Works, VI. 86.

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  • They greeted Peregrine and each other extravagantly or facetiously, and all of them asked why they were sitting in front and not onstage or in the rehearsal room. —  Light Thickens - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 33: 1982
  • I bowed facetiously, then agreed to help him find his almighty weed The trouble with Tyler helping us hack into Genie was that he was imprisoned for hacking. —  AnalogSFF,May2008
  • You can't have been long in London then A year I suppose you'd jump down my throat if I were to ask you how much is left of that he hesitated, then turned the sentence facetiously--"of those twenty thousand shillings you were cut off with Let this vile den answer Don't disparage the den; it's not so bad You are right--I may come to worse. —  Merely Mary Ann
  • This ceremony--facetiously known as "hitting the pipe"--being thus concluded, the membership pipes are carefully cleaned out and replaced in the club rack As I have said, however, the raison d'etre of the club, and the feature upon which its fame chiefly rests, is its collection of rare books, and of these by far the most interesting are its own publications. —  Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
  • I thought it only fair and sportsmanlike Bagley's eyes gleamed facetiously--"to let you know before I notify the police. —  The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day
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