What is Facetious?
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To make an attempt at being funny, while being sarcastic at the same time.
Jacky was being facetious when she said, "Yes, let's all go to Iraq for my birthday party!"
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Playfully jocular; humorous.
The comedian made many facetious remarks.
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Unique as the only word in the English language to sound like a variation of it's slang definition. In other words: It sounds like it may actually mean "full of feces" although it does not...but it does mean full of shit.
After telling that joke he said he was being facetious, but we all know he was just looking for a smarter sounding way of saying he was full of shit.
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A word that Sinead made up
Sinead: Hey, stop being so facetious.
Me: That's not a real word and you know it
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Being facetious is when you say something you think is funny, but NOBODY laughs. So then you have to say "Oh, uh...I was being facetious". And everyone's like "Ooooh Kayyy... (What a jackass.)"
"An awkward silence fell over the group after his facetious remark about the director's 'ghetto booty' wasn't appreciated.
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