And he leaned over and he continued being facetious, and said, what are you going to sing?

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The best thing about Miami is how close it is to the rest of the US. That is only a slightly facetious statement.

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On hearing of the closure of his local airport, the 27-year-old had sent out a facetious tweet to his 600 followers that mentioned "blowing the airport sky high!"

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Disclaimer: For the sarcasm challenged, very little in the above, except for the factual data and my admonition to otherwise ignore my facetious argument was meant to be taken seriously.

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His most widely quoted passage is his facetious petition to the French parliament on behalf of the French candle makers seeking passage of a law requiring the closing of all blinds, shutters etc.

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She was really being facetious with me.

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So I'm obviously being facetious.

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As both a long-time resident of the Harvard Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a 1967 graduate of Harvard Law School, this has been my semi-facetious but all-too-true mantra criticizing the sorry state of free speech and free thought at Harvard.

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The tone of our hypothetical piece is facetious, not hateful, and its thought experiment is meant to illustrate some broader point about Jewish culture. (We can't imagine what that point might be, but this level of detail is sufficient for our purposes.) It wouldn't stand the slightest chance of getting published in the Times, would it?

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