Possibly because he began his career with public facetiousness about "purple patches" he often seems to allow a promising passage to break its back because he will not seem artificial or affected.
Most elderly people in the book come in for a good deal of facetiousness directed against their ponderously old-fashioned views.
To this has man come: to hisfacetiousness has succeeded sarcasm.
Beginning the old cumbrous facetiousness about her correspondence, he blurted out the true thoughts that he had begun to entertain.
As soon as Dale went to order his gig the clumsy facetiousness was renewed.
Mr. Ridgett continued talking in a tone of light facetiousness that seemed to cover a certain deprecating earnestness.
But at its worst it was an immense improvement on the heavyfacetiousness of Punch's earlier manner.
By way of contrast to this carnival of punning facetiousness we may note the rebuke administered in May, 1863, to the students of University College, who hissed the proposal to admit women to degrees.
But his remarks had not been without a touch of facetiousness in their wilful disgust.
Philip thought this answer would cause the boy a certain awkwardness, but Venning was not to be turned from hisfacetiousness for so little.
They both had a vulgar facetiousness which tickled her simple sense of humour, and a certain coarseness of nature; but what took her perhaps was the blatant sexuality which was their most marked characteristic.
Facetiousness therefore in such cases, and to such purposes, may be allowable.
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
But first it may be demanded what the thing we speak of is, or what this facetiousness doth import?
The ceremony was well-nigh stopped in limine, in consequence of an ill-timed piece of facetiousness on the part of the candidate.
Morehouse, still from head to toe a symphony in many-toned browns, shed every shred of his facetiousness at Hogarty's crisply repeated invitation.
Where his facetiousness had failed him Morehouse's round-eyed astonishment, a little tinged with panic, was more than successful.
Still, his feelings were as solemn as could be expected, from a man whose natural temperament had always inclined him to facetiousness and humor.
It is not, however, to be inferred that all Swift's recreations were so dreary as this Anglo-Latin, or that his facetiousness always covered an aching heart.
One might be tempted to say, were it not for the conclusive evidence to the contrary, that this love of the most mechanical variety of facetiousness implied an absence of any true sense of humour.
It's always the same," she remarked with indignation, when with forced facetiousness he had given her an extremely imperfect and bowdlerized account of his evening.
I hope Brool hasn't dropped down dead," said he, realising the foolishness of his facetiousness as he spoke.
They were appended to a piece of facetiousness that would not have disgraced the abilities of Mr. John Raikes; but we know that very stiff young gentlemen betray monkey-minds when sweet young ladies compel them to disport.
A curious struggle therein between native facetiousness and an attempt at dignity, appeared to Evan not unfamiliar; and the egregious failure of ambition and triumph of the instinct, helped him to join, the stranger in his mirth.
But this facetiousness passed unheeded by the poor woman to whom it was addressed, unless one look of reproachful scorn, which she cast in the stupid face of the steward, might be considered as an answer to it.
It must be said, that this stern man, who did not approve of students because of their free-and-easy facetiousness and incomprehensible style in conversation, also did not like when just such boys in uniform appeared in the establishment.
In reply I fired a pistol unexpectedly over the heads of my new hosts, and improved the occasion of their terror by deprecating any practical facetiousness in future.
And in a page or two after such divine sentiment, the ladies of Bagdad sit in the porter's lap, and indulge in a facetiousness which would have killed Pietro Aretino before his time.
It is perhaps fortunate that this facetiousness was not witnessed: a crowd of Bedouins assembled below the hill, suspecting as usual some magical practices, and, had they known the truth, our journey might have ended abruptly.
German facetiousness is seldom comic to foreigners, and an Englishman with a swelled cheek might take up Kladderadatsch, the German Punch, without any danger of agitating his facial muscles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "facetiousness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
