[fəˈsiːʃəs], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant
(e.g: a facetious remark)


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Origin:
mid 16th century (in facetiousness in the general sense ‘wittiness’): from French facétieux, from facétie, from Latin facetia ‘jest’, from facetus ‘witty’