Example Sentences

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There is no perfect name for this dynamic, but some have begun to refer to it, somewhat facetiously, as “Dark Woke.”

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026

The moment is a typical Bondian bad-guy intro, and yet because of the facetiously serious tone and absurd context around it, it’s absolutely sidesplitting.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024

Andrea and I were to meet on May 1, so when I forwarded the restaurant confirmation, I facetiously suggested we should wear flowers or vine leaves in our hair, it being May Day and all.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022

That 27-point threshold can facetiously be described as the Keyes Constant, or Crazification Factor, meaning the amount of support a joke candidate of one of the major parties is likely to obtain.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2022

He’d made what Charles Krauthammer described in Time magazine, somewhat facetiously, as the greatest comeback since Napoleon Bonaparte sailed a single-masted fleet from the island of Elba in 1815.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady