We are certain that the uproarious laughter caused by this facetious article . . They started pretending to be best friends in a facetious manner. The award can be facetious or serious. Many personal, and sometimes facetious, proposals for additional metric prefixes have been formulated. But he knew I was being facetious. In keeping with Devo's love of facetious "truths", several possible origins of the domes exist. Histories of the Contest tend to take a facetious view of this fact. Cherney would refer to the flyer as facetious. See above for the possible origin of "Amadeus" as facetious. This led to facetious headlines that Vermont had declared war on Germany. In Italy, Giovanni Francesco Straparola released "The Facetious Nights of Straparola" in the 1550s.