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How to use facetiously in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word facetiously? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Suggesting it as to people whom you do dislike, even if you suggest it facetiously, is mean-spirited.
A number of people had facetiously described Keith's muscular problems as shagger's back.
I facetiously call it the bitter season, and there have been times when it's been hard.
I had posted this link facetiously but see that some commenters, both pro and con, are taking it more seriously.
I wonder facetiously if we could call one marriage and the other marriage, but have one italicized or something like that.
I am not asking this facetiously, I am genuinely puzzled as to why you decided to include this column over others in what I heard was a pretty heated competition last term.
Mr. Ron Mosher: I could facetiously say they haven't seen the light yet, but I won't say that.
It would be far more easy to accomplish that than it was to put a human on the moon, or to split an atom, or to get an NHL hockey team for Saskatchewan, or perhaps even a bit facetiously, to get a winning team here in Ottawa.
They commented facetiously on how poor the drivers must be because there were so many people that they saw out and about in wheelchairs, walkers and with canes moving about freely.
Locals chuckled when a foreigner warned facetiously that if they blended in any better, other vehicles might crash into them. North Korea is the most highly militarised society on earth.
Wamidh Nadhmi, a politics professor at Baghdad University, asks, somewhat facetiously, whether America really needs 4,000 diplomats to issue visas. Most Iraqis still want American help.
The Chair: I don't say it facetiously, Lynn.
He obviously said that quite facetiously, tongue in cheek.
Dr. T. W. M. Cameron, head of the institute of parasitology at Macdonald College told facetiously four years ago about a patent issued to the inventor of a trap designed to catch tapeworms.
Or, to put it less facetiously, why does politics, the business of running the country, draw on so much shallower a recruitment pool than most other important enterprises in Britain?
Examples from Classical Literature
In one corner, a fair philosopher in blue velvet and point lace, took the Sun in hand facetiously.
I asked, facetiously, but I didn't feel in the least humorous.
The lessons of Prodicus, whom he facetiously calls his master, are still running in the mind of Socrates.
I scarcely know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth's credit.
Emily interposed, addressing herself facetiously to the dog.
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