Both Uses of
farce
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- 'There's genteel comedy in your walk and manner, juvenile tragedy in your eye, and touch-and-go farce in your laugh,' said Mr Vincent Crummles.†
Chpt 22 *
- Mr Squeers would, very likely, have carried on the farce of being offended a little longer, if Mrs Sliderskew, in her anxiety to restore herself to her former high position in his good graces, had not become so extremely affectionate that he stood at some risk of being smothered by her caresses.†
Chpt 57
Definition:
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(farce as in: the meeting was a farce) a situation that is so badly organized or going so poorly that it seems ridiculous
or:
a situation that is made to look like one thing, but is really another
or more specifically:
a situation that is supposed to be fair, but is completely unfair