Übersetzung für 'facetious' von Englisch nach Deutsch

facetious {adj}

sarkastisch

scherzhaft

spöttisch

drollig

spaßhaft

witzig

• In 2011 a facetious proposal was published in "The Washington Post" (and reproduced in the "St Helena Independent") that Blue Hill be made into a "retirement village for exiled dictators", citing its isolation and small existing population.
• Zarathustra hosts a supper for his guests, which is enlivened by songs and arguments, and ends in the facetious worship of a donkey.
• Bee is credited as the founder (1845) of E Clampus Vitus, a mostly facetious fraternal organization now dedicated to the preservation of western lore.
• There is a (probably facetious) rule that draws cannot be agreed.
• He subsequently clarified that when he said he had outstayed his welcome he had been "thinking more about the people I prosecuted rather than anything else", and that "I was kidding, I was being facetious".

• Hypothetical examples include Heinz von Foerster's facetious "Doomsday's equation" (simplistic models yield infinite human population in finite time).
• In many countries, facetious or insulting acronyms are now considered unethical and unacceptable, and patients can access their medical records.
• In the frequently playful letters of his youth Mozart would sometimes spell his name backwards, viz., "Mozart Wolfgang" or "Trazom". See above for the possible origin of "Amadeus" as facetious.
• Falconer died unmarried on 21 November 1764, aged 90. He was described as a very keen golfer and a very facetious, pleasing companion.
• The band filmed a facetious video for Funny or Die that was released in July, in which they self-seriously offer to teach a MasterClass on writing music.

• Until his death he wrote the dramatic column of "Le Figaro" with an indulgent and facetious style.
• ", "Asiaweek" and "Traveller", have made facetious statements regarding the campaign.
• Peacock is the author of a facetious book of poems entitled "Limericks by Lucy Peacock as The Duchess of Malfi - written as she lay dead on the stage" (2011).
• He is best known for his somewhat facetious Wiio's laws around communication, succinctly summarized as "Communication usually fails, except by accident".
• "Squoze" is a facetious past participle of the verb 'to squeeze'.

• Luigi Lanzi said of Olivieri that he was "born to amuse others with personal ridicule, with witty sayings, with facetious paintings.
• The expression "catch fire" is a facetious exaggeration of the speed with which the CPU chip would be switching some bus circuits, causing them to overheat and burn.
• This facetious engineering unit is defined as 250 watts [...] about a third of a horsepower.
• Balduugiin "Marzan" Sharav (1869 – 1939, [...]; marzan = "facetious"), was a Mongolian painter.