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Word: Facetious
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
mid 16th century (in facetiousness in the general sense ‘wittiness’): from French facétieux, from facétie, from Latin facetia ‘jest’, from facetus ‘witty’
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Phonetic Spelling:
fəˈsiːʃəs
Dialects: British English
Definition:
treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant
Short Definition:treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour
Examples:- a facetious remark
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