Sample Sentences for
farce
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    The peace talks have become a farce.
    farce = ridiculous situation
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    Everyone agreed the meeting was a farce — nothing got done, and half the team left early.
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    My favorite farce is Shaw's, The Importance of Being Earnest.
    farce = ridiculous comedy
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    It's a farce, man.  (source)
    farce = a ridiculous situation
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    The music became suspenseful now, a series of diminished chords, perhaps a scary moment pending—and sure enough the orchestra reached the stage apron and dropped rather dramatically into the pit and then completely out of sight, elevatored down like so many geeks in tuxedos, a maneuver of a certain farcical bravado, greeted with cheers.†  (source)
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    She defended herself with a pair of gardening shears that she had hidden in her bodice, and six men were needed to put her in the strait jacket while the crowd jammed into the Plaza of the Customhouse applauded and whistled with glee in the belief that the bloody capture was one of many Carnival farces.†  (source)
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    Chapman had become the public face defending the conviction, and he realized that he'd put his own credibility on the line by relying on the work of local investigators—work that was now revealed as almost farcically flawed.  (source)
    farcically = ridiculously
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    He had risen and, despite the farcicality of Dr. Will Kennicott's bulgy trousers draped over his arm, he had the grace of a cat.†  (source)
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    The exchange rate is a farce, the price of carrots indefensible, duplicity lives everywhere.  (source)
    farce = ridiculous situation
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    I was so disgusted with the BOP's farcical prerelease program that I just shut my eyes and waited for it to be over.†  (source)
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    Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces—though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.†  (source)
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    Chapter 31 — Tragedy Then Farce  (source)
    Farce = a situation that is made to look like one thing, but is really another
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    We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous.†  (source)
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