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If you are facetious, you make jokes when other people want a serious answer. You are trying to sound clever and funny, but it often comes out silly or a bit rude, and it can people. It is not a kind word. Calling someone facetious means their humour is in the wrong place — a meeting, a worry, a sad moment. It is a fairly educated, slightly sharp adjective; you hear it from teachers, in books, and when someone is telling you off. It is stronger than joking and colder than funny. A facetious remark is a joke that misses the mood.
愛插科打諢的；不正經搞笑的（帶嫌語氣，不是單純「幽默」）
組成From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (jest, wit, humour), from facētus (witty). It does not come from the English word face.
同家族的字
- facetiouslythe adverb: in this poorly timed, try-hard joking way
- facetiousnessthe noun: this kind of joking as a habit or a quality
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
facetiousadj/fəˈsiːʃəs/
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Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
- Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious.
- Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.
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Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
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humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。