Facetiously [adverb]
Definition of Facetiously:
comically
Opposite/Antonyms of Facetiously:
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Sentence/Example of Facetiously:
My own half-facetious daydream is to put Walmart—which has 150 million people passing through its doors each week and operates more than 5,000 pharmacies, many in underserved areas—in charge of vaccine distribution.
The pair are of course being somewhat facetious in tracing the end of growth to a particular day.
I asked, facetiously, but I didn't feel in the least humorous.
Our military cook would often facetiously refer to "platoon-firing in the starboard oven."
The young engineer must pick his boss as our young men are facetiously advised to pick their parents.
The guard stopped, presented arms to this small, peremptory terrier, and inquired facetiously if he had a pass.
Footnote 43: Flogging was facetiously termed "putting on a new shirt."
If justice, facetiously so called, wanted another bout, he would "come up smiling."
"It's quite a send-off for the Colonel," said Caldwell, who was wont at times to use the title facetiously.
This Captain Rodgers, a gentlemanly man, facetiously termed his hornbreeze.