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How to use facetiousness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word facetiousness? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Though occasionally the humour degenerates into facetiousness, the verbal dexterity of the verse is superb.
Eclectic learning, pungent black humour sometimes degenerating into facetiousness, a stately but singular style, distinguish all his writing.
Individual scenes are funny enough but, at feature length, the facetiousness soon grates.
Aja creates a sense of mounting paranoia and tension but continually risks undercutting his own story with the lapses into facetiousness.
Not in this production, which adds facetiousness to the disagreeableness of The Taming of the Shrew.
But still waters run deep and, listening to Plouc, it soon becomes clear that Annegarn has not entirely lost his former facetiousness.
Mr. Rick Borotsik: No, without any facetiousness, I would like to say this is possibly-without question-the best organized presentation ever seen before this committee.
He had also experimented in serious writing, providing studies of human misery and despair strangely at variance with the frenzied facetiousness of his comic work.
He would say what those of us in the stands where thinking, but not with the forced jollity and all too obvious facetiousness displayed by some of the more try-hard presenters.
Guardians Of The Galaxy is Marvel-lite: a brisk and breezy superhero movie that provides plenty of visual spectacle and humour but is sometimes undermined by its own facetiousness.
Examples from Classical Literature
On these occasions David vied with Tammas in facetiousness at his father's expense.
Confronted with the Hairy Ainus, he had touched a high level of facetiousness.
Strickland gave the polite little laugh with which people acknowledge a facetiousness in which they see nothing funny, but did not speak.
Philip thought this answer would cause the boy a certain awkwardness, but Venning was not to be turned from his facetiousness for so little.
Athos did not smile at this little pleasantry which Planchet had aimed at him, in order to try his strength in mundane facetiousness.
On the other hand, along with his ease of expression, he displayed a lightness and facetiousness of thought that delighted her.
The occurrences of the day bear all of them the stamp of facetiousness.
I wish those commentators who habitually resort to insouciant facetiousness would realise that the defeat of a good thing-of any thing, in fact-is not a subject for humour.
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