Unlike our irascible friend Wrench, he had the easiest way in the world of taking things which might be supposed to annoy him, being a well-bred, quietly facetious man, who kept a good house, was very fond of a little sporting when he could get it, very friendly with Mr.
It was a mean, small name, with a kind of facetious twist, she thought, about its end like the upward curve of a pugdog's tail.
The discourse was resumed presently, but it went lame and halting, all possibility of impressiveness being at an end; for even the gravest sentiments were constantly being received with a smothered burst of unholy mirth, under cover of some remote pew-back, as if the poor parson had said a rarely facetious thing.
Which is facetious yet incontrovertible: if a fashion editor can't own a stupidly tremendous number of shoes, then who the hell can?
Generally speaking, duilian can be classified into Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) couplets, wedding couplets, longevity couplets, elegiac couplets, decorative couplets, trade couplets, social couplets, and miscellaneous couplets including facetious or humorous couplets.
Thirty years ago, the Supreme Court held that any claim for homosexual rights was, in the words of Justice Byron White, "at best, facetious.
I'm not being facetious.
