Word Finder - farce

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A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.

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A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.

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The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time.

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A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.

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The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.

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A ridiculous or empty show.

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The political arena is a mere farce, with all sorts of fools trying to grab power.

Why did he continue the farce when he must realize she had him pegged?

This travesty was built upon a farce.

I'm ready to forgive you, but we're never going to put this in the past if you keep up this farce.

The farce get more anarchic with every turn of the plot.

Obviously he wanted to continue his farce.

Mr Bradley said, " It was a complete and utter farce.

Morphology becomes a farce when such assumptions are made.

This farce brings the sport into total and utter disrepute.

The campaign became a farce from that point on.

Actors wanted who can make a farce out of the police.

These party-political shenanigans arguably contribute as much to Italy's ongoing political farce as the blatant corruption at the top.

Gogol, described as " the Russian Dickens ", wrote this monumental farce about human greed and folly in 1835.

We hope soon to have another farce from the same author.

The producer was the most unlikely man to do a comedy farce.

This tragic farce was alleviated by the administrative creativity of Lieutenant-Colonel Davidson.

With its charming final reunions evading any profound questions about the nature of identity, this Comedy was pure farce.

The cast, for all their virtues, unfortunately failed to extract the full humor of this classic farce.

He had an admirable gift of lucid, direct narrative, and an unfailing fund of incident, and of humour, sometimes bordering on farce.

When death comes, the farce is over (la farce est jouee), therefore let us take our pleasure while we can.

His incommensurable and indescribable masterpiece of mingled humour, wisdom, satire, erudition, indecency, profundity, levity, imagination, realism, reflects the whole age in its mirror of hyperAristophanic farce.

The history of the modern drama begins with religious plays, followed at a later period by moralities, and thence, by an easy transition, by the farce.

What follows, in this Cannes Camera d'Or-winning gem, is an absurdly comic farce in the best Eastern European tradition.

Ginji does something really dumb and winds up in the middle of a madcap hospital farce.

It can be played successfully for knockabout farce, sweet sentimentality or dark irony.

Although the degeneration of the Clinton administration into a bedroom farce will make the situation worse, it is not the fundamental cause.

We meant of course that Mr Nicolme is a detective in the police farce.

However, the old school had a sufficiently large rump of pupils for the final assembly to become a farce!

The farce of the cream tarts began to have very much the air of a tragedy in disguise.

He died, it is said, on the 9th of April 1553, but actual history is quite silent save on the point that he was not alive in May of the next year, and the legends about his deathbed utterances - "La farce est jouee," "Je vais chercher un grand peut-titre," &c. - are altogether apocryphal.

Cardinal de Retzs red hat, or Madame de Longuevilles stool at the queens side; it was, as its name of Fronde indicates, a hateful farce, played by grown-up children, in several acts.

This consultation is a farce it 's a foregone conclusion and is a rubber-stamping process rather than a consultation.

This rumbustious farce proves Molière to be a master of the comedic genre.

However, the old school had a sufficiently large rump of pupils for the final assembly to become a farce !

The Spanish referendum was a travesty built upon a farce.

She also provided her voice talents for the film Farce of the Penguins and is a public speaker, discussing her meth addiction and recovery.

The costume originated in British burlesque shows, which combined classic French farce and sexually charged bedroom scenarios.

In addition, Randi's unsuspecting family members were rewarded with $100,000 each for biting their tongues and allowing the farce to unfold.

The list of his characters in tragedy, comedy and farce is large, and would be extraordinary for a modern actor of high rank; it includes not less than seventeen Shakespearian parts.

The trial of the twenty-one, which began before the Revolutionary Tribunal on the 24th of October, was a mere farce, the verdict a foregone conclusion.

At their worst, even with venal examiners (and additional fees were often offered as a bribe), Rashdall regards these examinations (at the end of the 13th century) as probably " less of a farce than the pass examinations of Oxford and Cambridge almost within the memory of persons now living."

It was further thought that the occupation by Great Britain of the country beyond the Orange River had been a bubble and a farce, in which the Cape colonists were all interested; for that it was to them a great gaming table and out of the reach of the police....

In 1832 a strolling company of actors visited Mere, and Barnes wrote a farce, The Honest Thief, which they produced, and a comedy which was played at Wincanton.

After the protonotaries left the sketching of the minutes to the abbreviators, those de Farce majori, who ranked as prelates, were the most important officers of the apostolic chancery.

Malatesta could afford to laugh at this farce, but he nevertheless prepared in haste for a desperate defence (1462).

Bo Derek's appearance in the popular sex farce shot her to instant stardom and status as a sex symbol.

In a few hours they are to launch their provincial tour of " Nothing On, " a slapstick farce.

The IWF will not tolerate any infraction under any circumstances. As Dr. Ajan was speaking, the situation began to degenerate into utter farce.

High Society A giddy blend of corking songs, fizzing one-liners and champagne-fuelled farce.

On the one hand, they produce a theatrically enthralling combination of brilliant farce and deep pathos.

Having said that, the broadband rollout farce in the UK was enough to make people change their mind about going online.