half-facetiously

Updated: May 6, 2025

Wouldn't be much matter if 'twasn't never found again," he retorted, half-facetiously, and half-vexed that, as she hinted, there were still confidences withheld from him. Susanna ignored his playfulness, and went on as if he had not interrupted: "I'm goin' to make jumbles, an' little frosted cakes, an' teeny-tiny riz biscuit, an' raisin-loaf. I've got a ham on b'ilin', an' my suz!

Evelyn Raymond - The Brass Bound Box

As the train started again Morgan H. Rogers let fall his magazine and growled half-facetiously: "What the devil are all those telegrams about?" "Just a little injunction suit," the young man answered modestly, "in which my firm has been quite successful."

Arthur Cheney Train - The Confessions of Artemas Quibble : Being the Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of Artemas Quibble, Esquire, One-Time Practitioner in the New York Criminal Courts, Together with an Account of the Divers Wiles, Tricks, Sophistries, Technicalities, and Sundry Artifices of Himself and Others of the Fraternity, Commonly Yclept "Shysters" or "Shyster Lawyers"