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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--facetious This week's theme: words having vowels aeiou once and only once, and in order. facetious (fuh-SEE-shus) adjective Jocular or humorous, often inappropriately. [From Latin facetus (witty).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Prof Bailey is particularly incensed that in some cases, the presiding judge makes facetious comments which trivialise the issue." Barbara Gloudon; Of Bling and School Uniforms; Jamaica Observer; Mar 23, 2007. X-Bonus Modern technology / Owes ecology / An apology. -Alan M. Eddison

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