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Facetious

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Adjective

1. bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheek

cleverly amusing in tone

Example Sentences:
'a bantering tone'
'facetious remarks'
'tongue-in-cheek advice'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Facetious

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adjective
1. 
characterized by levity of attitude and love of joking
a facetious person
2. 
jocular or amusing, esp at inappropriate times
facetious remarks

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Facetious

see synonyms of facetious
adjective
joking or trying to be jocular, esp. at an inappropriate time

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Facetious

see synonyms of facetious
adj.
Playfully jocular; humorous: facetious remarks.

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