facetious

Signification (Anglais)

  1. Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
  2. Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
  3. humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.

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Prononcé comme (IPA)
/fəˈsiːʃəs/
Étymologie (Anglais)

From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (“jest, wit, humor”), from facētus (“witty, jocose, facetious”).

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