FACETIOUS - Translation from English into Polish

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facetious [fəˈsi:ʃəs] ADJ

facetious: głupawy

to be facetious: usiłować być dowcipnym

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to be facetious: usiłować być dowcipnym

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Another reason for the decline is that facetious acronyms could be confused with genuine medical terms and the wrong treatment administered.

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The artiste, who asked the question, was being facetious, wasn't he?

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Between 1867 and in 1878 he published three little books of miscellaneous prose and verse, facetious and satirical in character and not of much merit.

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He also appears in facetious turns of phrase such as another fine day was supplied by the clerk of the weather.

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Neurosis was being used, increasingly, in a facetious or pejorative sense, rather than a diagnostic sense.

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