This facetious dignitary had suggested that the roof should be taken off the Palace at Viterbo where they sat, to allow the divine influences to descend more freely on their counsels (quia nequeunt ad nos per tot tecta ingredi).
It was always easy to identify the facetious from the serious Mr. Bolton; his jokes were always heralded by a laugh.
It is many times expedient, that things really ridiculous should appear such, that they may be sufficiently loathed and shunned; and to render them such is the part of a facetious wit, and usually can only be compassed thereby.
I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
Facetious discourse particularly may be commodious for reproving some vices, and reclaiming some persons (as salt for cleansing and curing some sores).
They were doomed to disappointment, for the batsman was bowled first ball, a mishap which a facetious friend in the shade of the refreshment tent attributed to natural anxiety not to waste the return half of his ticket.
There was a magnetism of dulness in them which would have beaten down the most facetious companion that the earth ever knew.
We distinguish even the nearest ties of relationship by facetious names.
The paper was then edited by Robert Clark, printer of the London Gazette, and afterwards by Jerdan, assisted by Fladgate the facetious lawyer, Mulloch, and John Taylor.
Photography is sufficiently facetious in itself, and too versatile in its powers of delineation of scenes and character, to require any verbose effort of mine to make it attractive.
This gesture he took for a facetious sympathy, and, dolorously grasping the hand, found himself holding a lump of bills.
Claude Haton waxes facetious when describing the sudden popularity acquired by the sign of the cross, and the numbers of rosaries that could be seen in the hands, or tied to the belt, of fugitive Huguenot ladies.
At this facetious speech, the young boy, it is almost needless to say, was fairly convulsed.
When Mr. Pickwick arrived at this point, Job Trotter, with facetious gravity, applied his hand to his ear, as if desirous not to lose a syllable he uttered.
The only difference which the unconscious Jeffreys was aware of in the conduct of Jonah Trimble towards himself was that the young gentleman was a trifle more hectoring and a trifle more facetious than before.
Jeffreys, as indeed it was intended, heard these facetious remarks on his strange toilet, and his brow grew heavy.
Its words were a laborious parody, its harmonies exactly predicable; it was facetious or nothing, and it marred an original with a remote and deathly grace of its own; but these things were forgotten as Harry sang.
Miss Price, the manageress, appeared, and Percy began his stupid and facetious love-making.
What the facetious fellow meant was, that our own State would enjoy peace and prosperity were our mob-politicians all in the penitentiary.
The youngest of young girls, I find, are being trained to the calling, who are all destined, I suppose, to marry distinguished foreigners from some distant and facetious country.
Of all things, the greatest bore is to hear a dull and bashful man sing a facetious song.
An official predecessor of mine, thefacetious Robert Sinclair, was wont to say the three last days of the Session should be abolished by Act of Parliament.
The incidents of the past month were to be put on a facetious footing it appeared.
The jokes which form the themes of the Russian facetious tales are for the most part common to all Europe.
He was chewing tobacco with manly vigor, and cracking jokes with a facetious juryman, who was assistant foreman of the Bully Boy Hose, of which the coroner was an exempt and honorary member.
The coroner, who looked a little the worse for his dinner of the day before, was bandying jokes with the facetious reporters.
We must look for some other person who had a profession, and also was reported to have facetious grace in writing.
Speaking on the evidence of "divers of worship," the same man is said to possess "facetious grace in writing.
Thus I do not see how Chettle's professional actor, reported to have facetious grace in writing, can be identified with Peele.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "facetious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
