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   facetious

   /fəˈsiːʃəs/

   adjective

   • 1. treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant: "a facetious remark"

   Word Origin late 16th century (in the general sense ‘witty, amusing’): from French facétieux, from facétie, from Latin facetia ‘jest’, from facetus ‘witty’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. facetiously adverb
   • 2. facetiousness noun

   Scrabble Points: 14

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