facetious.
Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
Meaning & usage
Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious.
Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.
Where this word comes from
From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (“jest, wit, humor”), from facētus (“witty, jocose, facetious”).
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