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: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=facetious

-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.

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http://wordsmith.org/words/facetious.ram

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