0 not serious about a serious subject, in an attempt to be funny or to appear clever -- （尤指不问场合）好开玩笑的；滑稽的，诙谐的
facetious remarks 不合时宜的发言
He's just being facetious. 他只是在乱开玩笑。
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.
