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e:'>//the essay is a facetious commentary on the absurdity of war as a solution for international disputes
  • //a facetious and tasteless remark about people in famine-stricken countries being spared the problem of overeating
    • First Known Use
    1594, in the meaning defined above
    History and Etymology
    borrowed from Middle French facetieux, facecieux, from facetie "joke, jesting remark" (borrowed from Latin facētia, facētiae "cleverness, wit," in plural sense, "amusing things, jests") + -eux (going back to Latin -ōsus -ous) — more at facetiae
    facetious
    adjective

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