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

Olsen: I don’t mean this facetiously, but how do you find your research witch?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

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

But all those 500 Bantu languages are so similar to each other that they have been facetiously described as 500 dialects of a single language.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond