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  • Everyone agreed the meeting was a farce — nothing got done, and half the team left early.
  • My favorite farce is Shaw's, The Importance of Being Earnest.
    farce = ridiculous comedy
  • 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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  • After the POWs had passed, the Bird jumped down, ran ahead, and hopped onto another trough, shouting, striking his pose, and demanding salutes. Over and over he repeated the farce, driving the men on for miles.  (source)
    farce = ridiculous situation
  • They dug trenches, secured supply lines and were sent out on night exercises that were farcical for the infantrymen because the purpose was never explained and there was a shortage of weapons.†  (source)
  • Farces,—that's what they are!†  (source)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • The exchange rate is a farce, the price of carrots indefensible, duplicity lives everywhere.  (source)
    farce = ridiculous situation
  • "It was reprised in Shakespeare, in a farcical way," my dad told her.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • What a farce!  (source)
  • 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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