The professor was being facetious when she asked the students to ignore her lecture while taking the exam. From LearnThat.org.
The first time I ever heard the word facetious was on a Simpsons episode. From Wordnik.com. [dailycomic Diary Entry] Reference
I like the word facetious too, Zoom, because I associate it with a very funny story. From Wordnik.com. [Unwrapping the mayor « knitnut.net] Reference
"White," called a facetious member, but White did not notice. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools] Reference
` ` White, '' called a facetious member, but White did not notice. From Wordnik.com. [Old Creole Days] Reference
That's what we call a facetious comment. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond Robson] Reference
You say that kind of facetious-like, but it really is true. From Wordnik.com. [Am I the only one who thinks...] Reference
I said it in a kind of facetious manner, to be perfectly truth. From Wordnik.com. [Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century] Reference
He said it was a "facetious" suit and that it should be over soon. From Wordnik.com. [Reader's Horror Story Is] Reference
Do you even know what "facetious" means, Jaden Smith?. From Wordnik.com. [NOGOODFORME.COM] Reference
I was being kind of facetious calling it fun, but you're right. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Only people who have to look up the word "facetious" think it does. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Nothing 'facetious' about it: 48 advance to National Spelling Bee semis; winner crowned. From Wordnik.com. [ABC News: Top Stories] Reference
You have heard of the word facetious, right?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Hypocrisy of Stimulus Hypocrites] Reference
"I refuse to become facetious," Macloud responded. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
Disturbing work: Of course, I'm being a little facetious. From Wordnik.com. [The Dirt On Shakespeare] Reference
The literary youth of London are all in the facetious line. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
He was of grave thought, yet often facetious in conversation. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
His look facetious under heavy-lidded folds. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Young Aesthetes] Reference
Genuine Dialogue; facetious and pathetic, by the Author of the Curious. From Wordnik.com. [The Annual Catalogue: Numb. II. (1738) Or, A new and compleat List of All The New Books, New Editions of Books, Pamphlets, &c.] Reference
His witt lively and sparkeling, and his humour pleasant and facetious. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute, said the old facetious duchesse de. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
But these facetious remarks gradually became fewer as the wonder subsided. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference
Instead of thanking me for my wisdom (being facetious here), they were angry. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Logan Levkoff: Why Some Men Aren't Getting Laid] Reference
"I've lost a letter," said Paul, on whom these facetious remarks were quite lost. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Writing for the majority of justices, White had called such an assertion "facetious.". From Wordnik.com. [The War Over Gay Marriage] Reference
Mayhew had a story of which a facetious police officer of his acquaintance was the hero. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Were I blest with the culinary accuracy of the facetious Christopher North, or his friend. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference
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