facetious fəˈsiːʃəs/ adjective: facetious treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant. “a facetious remark” synonyms: flippant, flip, glib, frivolous, tongue-in-cheek, waggish, whimsical, joking, jokey, jesting, jocular, playful, roguish, impish, teasing, arch, mischievous, puckish; in fun, in jest, witty, amusing, funny, droll, comic, comical, chucklesome, light-hearted, high-spirited, bantering; archaicfrolicsome, sportive; rarejocose “no facetious remarks, please” antonyms: serious Origin late 16th century (in the general sense ‘witty, amusing’): from French facétieux, from facétie, from Latin facetia ‘jest’, from facetus ‘witty’. ********************************************************************************************* “English For Perfection” Is a social platform for the people…
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