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Facetious vs Waggish - What's the difference?

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Facetious is a related term of waggish.


As adjectives the difference between facetious and waggish

is that facetious is treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant while waggish is witty, jocular, like a wag.

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

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    Derived terms

    * facetiously * facetiousness

    waggish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • witty, jocular, like a wag
  • mischievous, tricky
  • Derived terms

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