Farce

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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