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i'll bring the wings, and he'll bring a fork like a sick freak

Can confirm this will be live tomorrow, with ferocity this weekend and potentially intensity too!

That there Miz guy wrote:100% live today my homie

then why the hell you telling me today on facebook?

Tfw you didn't read all of my messages

Miztacular wrote:Tfw you didn't read all of my messages

how could i.... i was at work and me tablet needed charging, so mad had to do some work instead of watching TV.

Within an hour or two

N i c e

Soonish I hope.

i'll post Ferocity card soon guys, so be sure to check that ish out

book leona

mj wrote:book leona

Told me not to you bitch
But alright.. No take backs.

Definition of facetious

1 :joking or jesting often inappropriately :waggish just being facetious
2 :meant to be humorous or funny :not serious a facetious remark
— facetiously adverb
— facetiousness noun
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Examples of facetious in a Sentence
The portrait is good, the prose embroidered here with the facetious parlance—is that the word?—of clubs. —V. S. Pritchett, "Club and Country," 1949, in A Man of Letters, 1985
Nor was Liebling seriously asserting that his facetious bit of investigation into Tin Pan Alley history constituted a refutation of Sartre's philosophy. —Raymond Sokolov, Wayward Reporter, 1980
… old ladies shrivelling to nothing in a forest of flowers and giant facetious get-well cards … —John Updike, Trust Me, 1962
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
Recent Examples of facetious from the Web
The questions were facetious, but Burnett didn’t smile.
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Zach Helfand, latimes.com, "Deontay Burnett can't talk like Keyshawn Johnson, but USC need him to play like that," 29 July 2017
This is being somewhat facetious and begrudgingly disrespectful to the players and coaches in the Padres clubhouse trying to win every day.
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Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Padres season just beginning," 25 July 2017
Bogart plays for teams with facetious names like the Kentucky Fighting Chickens and the Thundercats.
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Mark Wright, star-telegram.com, "Hockey lovers play on wheels in Arlington leagues," 22 June 2017
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facetious Is Chock-full of Vowels
Facetious—which puzzle fans know is one of the few English words containing the vowels a, e, i, o, u in order—came to English from the Middle French word facetieux, which traces to the Latin word facetia, meaning "jest." Facetia seems to have made only one other lasting contribution to the English language: facetiae, meaning "witty or humorous writings or sayings." Facetiae, which comes from the plural of facetia and is pronounced \fuh-SEE-shee-ee\ or \fuh-SEE-shee-eye\, is a far less common word than facetious, but it does show up occasionally. For example, American essayist Louis Menand used it in his 2002 book American Studies to describe the early days of The New Yorker. "The New Yorker," he wrote, "started as a hectic book of gossip, cartoons, and facetiae."

Origin and Etymology of facetious
Middle French facetieux, from facetie jest, from Latin facetia — see facetiae
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facetious Synonyms
Synonyms
clever, witty, humorous, jocular, smart
Antonyms
earnest, sincere
Related Words
cerebral, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual; bantering, frivolous, jesting, joking, joshing, teasing; antic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hysterical, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, rollicking, screaming, sidesplitting, uproarious; amusing, diverting, entertaining; mischievous, playful, prankish; jocose, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merry, mirthful, sunny; scintillating, sparkling; flip, flippant, pert, smart-aleck, smart-alecky, waggish; whimsical
Near Antonyms
brainless, lowbrow, stupid, witless; corny, hackney, hackneyed, lame; humorless, unamusing, uncomic, unfunny; earnest, grave, serious, serious-minded, sober, solemn, somber (or sombre); doleful, dolorous, lachrymose, plaintive, sorry, tearful, woeful
Synonym Discussion of facetious
witty, humorous, facetious, jocular, jocose mean provoking or intended to provoke laughter. witty suggests cleverness and quickness of mind. ⟨a witty remark⟩ humorous applies broadly to anything that evokes usually genial laughter and may contrast with witty in suggesting whimsicality or eccentricity. ⟨humorous anecdotes⟩ facetious stresses a desire to produce laughter and may be derogatory in implying dubious or ill-timed attempts at wit or humor. ⟨facetious comments⟩ jocular implies a usually habitual fondness for jesting and joking. ⟨a jocular fellow⟩ jocose is somewhat less derogatory than facetious in suggesting habitual waggishness or playfulness. ⟨jocose proposals⟩
FACETIOUS Defined for English Language Learners

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adjective
Definition of facetious for English Language Learners
—used to describe speech that is meant to be funny but that is usually regarded as annoying, silly, or not proper
FACETIOUS Defined for Kids

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adjective fa·ce·tious \ fə-ˈsē-shəs \
Definition of facetious for Students

:intended or trying to be funny a facetious remark
— facetiously adverb
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Facetious is one of the few words in English that contain all the vowels (not including “y”) in alphabetical order.
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