facetious

About 0.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.

   Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious.

2. adjective Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
3. adjective (Of an idea or statement) humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.

Similar words

tongue-in-cheek humourous humorous bantering haliburton glib jokeful persiflageous frivolous comic

Often followed by

and remarks remark in or to tone grace about

Word family

facetiously facetiousness facetiousnesses