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facetiousness
Part of speech: Noun Usage examples "facetiousness":- I therefore request you not to delay them by a facetiousness to which, I assure you, I am not in the humor to listen." - "The Lesser Bourgeoisie", Honore de Balzac.
- A curious struggle therein between native facetiousness and an attempt at dignity, appeared to Evan not unfamiliar; and the egregious failure of ambition and triumph of the instinct, helped him to join, the stranger in his mirth. - "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith", George Meredith.
- Then Andrew, before he sat down at the dinner- table, would take Ellen's face in his two moist hands, look at her with anxiety thinly veiled by facetiousness, rub his rough, dark cheek against her soft, white one until he had reddened it, then laugh, and tell her she looked like a bo'sn. - "The Portion of Labor", Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.