0 not serious about a serious subject, in an attempt to be funny or to appear clever :
facetious remarks
He's just being facetious.
1 not seriously meaning what you say, usually in an attempt to be humorous or to trick someone:
These increasingly convoluted definitions are not meant to be entirely facetious.
The song is a facetious comment on this act.
Dickens's allusions to the legend are often facetious, as we shall see.
One such way of manipulating existing lexical items is to expand them implicitly into longer forms so that the original does double (and often facetious) duty.
The suggestion is not entirely facetious.
The argument about fishermen is facetious and has no factual basis.
I do not say that in any facetious way.
I cannot help thinking that these observations are facetious.
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（尤指不問場合）好開玩笑的, 滑稽的，詼諧的…
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（尤指不问场合）好开玩笑的, 滑稽的，诙谐的…
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engraçadinho, brincalhão…
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facétieux…
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vtipný, směšný…
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