Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious.
Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.
From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (“jest, wit, humor”), from facētus (“witty, jocose, facetious”).
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