Meaning of Farce | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
   uncountable
2. A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
   countable
3. stuffing, mince (finely chopped meat or vegetables, used to fill a cavity in another food item, e.g. in a pie)
4. A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
   uncountable
5. A ridiculous or empty show.
   uncountable
6. An elaborate lie.
   countable
7. Forcemeat, stuffing.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

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

“Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language[…]; his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.”

“The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.”

“The first match in the magnificent new national stadium was a Euro 2012 qualifier between Romania and France that soon descended into farce as the pitch cut up and players struggled to maintain their footing. Amorebieta at times seemed to be paying homage to that game, but nobody else seemed to have a problem; it was just that Falcao was far better than him.”

“The United States, he declared, was "a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards."”

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