facetiously
- a word derived from facetious.
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 word “housedaddies,” referring facetiously to fathers who help in the home, appeared for the first time in The Times yesterday.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 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
Harper has barely swallowed a bite of an apple from the garden’s tree before he’s chiding her — facetiously — about “forbidden fruit.”
From Washington Post ● May 17, 2022
Lewis “told me facetiously that he is going to have the Radiation Laboratory declared a public nuisance,” Lawrence wrote Poillon, not without a certain perverse pride.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
