Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to farce.
- adjective Resembling a farce; ludicrous.
- adjective Ridiculously clumsy; absurd.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to farcy.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of a farce; droll; ludicrous; ridiculous; absurd.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See
farcy , n.
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- adjective resembling a
farce ;ludicrous ;absurd
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
Etymologies
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Examples
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I don't know if I should use the word farcical, but I think most of the teams you could pick without running through the thing about licensing.
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He also faces a travel ban pending investigations on what he called "farcical accusations" of inciting violent protests in December.
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Pets and dolls have taken the place of children in farcical-but-sad rituals previously reserved for children.
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Indeed, for visitors, part of the entertainment onboard the junk ultimately came from watching Chinese crew members participate in farcical tableaux vivantes that presented a grotesque versions of Chinese customs.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005
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The word farcical would bestow a generous description on "Scopes II".
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'geographical Carnival,' as we called the farcical Congress of last
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Playing devil’s advocate for a second, I have to conduct sickness reviews on staff and I refuse to get involved in farcical ‘Action Plans’ like the examples above.
Swine Flu Threat To Police Officers. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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DP NCOP member James Selfe said it was "very unfortunate" that the first formal NCOP meeting of this nature "ended in a situation which can only be described as farcical".
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Public hearings on controversial draft legislation likely to have a substantial impact on the pharmaceutical industry were described as farcical by opposition political parties after amendments to the legislation were submitted as soon as the hearing began on Monday morning.
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In 2006, he was sentenced to four-and-a-half years during a trial that his legal defenders described as farcical.
NYT > Home Page By ANDREW JACOBS 2011
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