What's a word for if someone, tired of having to go along with pretences, uses dry humour to covertly suggest that what they're saying is funny because it's so very not true?
They'd express it in a deflated, removed way. They're ridiculing that others won't pick up on it, but not with any obvious exaggeration or rudeness. It's like flat irony. It comes across as fairly jovial but an unmutual and detached way of dealing with people. They'll reply to inquiries about them that they can't outright say don't apply with joke scenarios about themselves in situations related to the inquiries. The scenarios aren't ha, ha funny. They're just quips. In a way it's like when you know you're lying, nobody else does but you're insecure and scared and don't know if they'll ever find out so when you like you try not to be too serious incase you're caught out. You go along with what everyone's saying to and about you impersonally like it's a game of circumstance you can't navigate out of without exposing yourself, so you just do your best at playing it "unwillingly" or something.
I think there's a word for this or a much better description. i can't fucken explain gud enuf thnx
