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Facetious vs Sporting - What's the difference?

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Facetious is a related term of sporting.


As adjectives the difference between facetious and sporting

is that facetious is treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant while sporting is (not comparable) pertaining to sports.

As a verb sporting is

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As a noun sporting is

the act of taking part in a sport.

facetious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.
    • Robbie's joke about Heather's picture was just him being facetious .
  • Pleasantly humorous, jocular.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * facetiously * facetiousness

    External links

    * * * English words that use all vowels in alphabetical order

    sporting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (more)
  • (not comparable) Pertaining to sports
    • He got a job in a sporting goods store.
  • (comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship.
    • Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
  • (comparable) Having a reasonable chance of success.
    • You think he has a sporting chance? I wouldn't call even him a long shot!
  • (comparable) Fair, generous; ‘game’.
    • It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.

    Derived terms

    * sporting goods * sporting house * sporting chance

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of taking part in a sport.
  • * (Philip Schaff)