| 词汇 | facetious |
| 释义 | facetious adjective disapprovinguk /fəˈsiː.ʃəs/ us /fəˈsiː.ʃəs/ not serious about a serious subject, in an attempt to be funny or to appear clever : 轻率的；浮夸的 facetious remarks不合时宜的发言 He's just being facetious.他只是在乱开玩笑。 Synonym tongue-in-cheek Humour & humorous amusingly bitingly blackly bone dryidiom bring coruscating drily gag GSOH jocose lightly mordancy non-serious pawky photobomb photobombing rib standing joke wag wisecrack Related wordsfacetiously facetiousness facetious | American Dictionaryfacetious adjective us/fəˈsi·ʃəs/ not seriously meaning what you say, usually in an attempt to be humorous or to trick someone: I make so much money that we never have to worry – I’m being facetious. facetiouslyadverbus/fəˈsi·ʃəs·li/ "We could spend all our income on health care," she said facetiously. Examples of facetiousfacetious These increasingly convoluted definitions are not meant to be entirely facetious. The song is a facetious comment on this act. Dickens's allusions to the legend are often facetious, as we shall see. One such way of manipulating existing lexical items is to expand them implicitly into longer forms so that the original does double (and often facetious) duty. The suggestion is not entirely facetious. The argument about fishermen is facetious and has no factual basis. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not say that in any facetious way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot help thinking that these observations are facetious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not wish to be facetious about it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The problem is much more serious than facetious references of that sort would indicate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are having a useful discussion in spite of the fact that it is tempting to be a little facetious on this issue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not making a facetious point but a very serious one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That sounded a note of seriousness, even if there were a disposition to be facetious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is not a facetious remark: it is a statement of fact. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I end on what might seem a slightly facetious note. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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