facetiously

About 0.18 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adverb In a facetious or flippant manner; in a manner that treats serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor.
2. adverb In a pleasantly humorous or playful fashion.

Similar words

tongue-in-cheek jokingly flippantly unfacetiously humorously jokefully unseriously comically humoristically jocularly

Often followed by

called that remarked to suggested said termed as referred

Word family

facetious facetiousness facetiousnesses