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Six example sentences with facetious, each labelled with its topic.
His facetious commentary over the disaster footage annoyed half the audience and delighted the other half.
Movies
People often turn facetious in a waiting room, joking about the worst outcome because silence feels harder to bear.
Psychology
One facetious line in the safety briefing cost the trainer his contract, since nobody in the room laughed.
Business
The narrator's facetious tone about the family's ruin unsettles readers who expected the chapter to be sad.
Literature
The judge warned the witness that a facetious answer about the missing files would be treated as contempt.
Law
His facetious reply to a question about the losing streak, blaming the mascot, played badly with fans the next morning.
Basketball
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