Associations to the word «Facetious»

Wiktionary

FACETIOUS, adjective. Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.
FACETIOUS, adjective. Pleasantly humorous, jocular.

Dictionary definition

FACETIOUS, adjective. Cleverly amusing in tone; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne