facetious
adjective
[ fəˈsiːʃəs ]
• treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.
• "a facetious remark"
Similar:
flippant,
flip,
glib,
frivolous,
tongue-in-cheek,
waggish,
whimsical,
joking,
jokey,
jesting,
jocular,
playful,
roguish,
impish,
teasing,
arch,
mischievous,
puckish,
in fun,
in jest,
witty,
amusing,
funny,
droll,
comic,
comical,
chucklesome,
light-hearted,
high-spirited,
bantering,
frolicsome,
sportive,
jocose,
Origin:
late 16th century (in the general sense ‘witty, amusing’): from French facétieux, from facétie, from Latin facetia ‘jest’, from facetus ‘witty’.
