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farcical

[fahr-si-kuhl]

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adjective

pertaining to or of the nature of farce.

resembling farce; ludicrous; absurd.

Origin:
1710–20; farce + -ical

Related forms

far·ci·cal·i·ty, far·ci·cal·ness, noun

far·ci·cal·ly, adverb

non·far·ci·cal, adjective

non·far·ci·cal·ly, adverb

non·far·ci·cal·ness, noun

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non·far·ci·cal·i·ty, noun

un·far·ci·cal, adjective

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Example Sentences

It runs into roughness, now and then, which requires rather diligent overacting and farcical behavior by all hands.

Yet attempts to impeach her for corruption and vote-rigging, along with a string of attempted coups, have been farcical.

Go to the farcical antiscience blog sites to post such, please.

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It runs into roughness, now and then, which requires rather diligent overacting and farcical behavior by all hands.

Yet attempts to impeach her for corruption and vote-rigging, along with a string of attempted coups, have been farcical.

Go to the farcical antiscience blog sites to post such, please.

There are so many different technologies being brought together, so picking one across the whole board would be almost farcical.

The film has the kind of swift, farcical writing that is found more often on television than in movie theaters.

Believe it or not this is what you find in these pages: a farcical bit of a cold war.

Nina's troubles are almost farcical in their multiplicity.

It has a series of wildly farcical incidents which are none the less frequently funny.

Foreign opinion will be outraged by the farcical legal case, but impotent.

Otherwise, it could well be meaningless if not farcical.

As bits of farcical business go, this one is paleolithic.

Human-rights campaigners think the trial was farcical.

The whole thing has become a farcical bunch of nonsense.

He could start by ensuring that the next election is less farcical than the last.

Which would easily be possible, by retracting the farcical verdicts of the last have decade or so.

Comic films and plays are either farcical or witty, with plenty of wordplays and rapid-fire verbal exchanges.

The whole thing was kick-started by the farcical sell-off of council houses well below market value.

It is farcical to suggest that five votes is any more bipartisan than two, or none.

Instead it il'uminates character through the freewheeling exercise of the farcical imagination.

I'd always been sensitive to and upset by the disparities between the rich and poor, but that disparity seems farcical nowadays.

Langley has contrived in a loose and farcical fashion within a limited motion-picture frame.

Obviously, his silence has nothing to do with the obvious farcical nature of the court.

It fails here because half its incidents are farcical and fantastic.

Airport security is a farcical theatre of smoke and mirrors.

Even with the farcical elements, the humor stays remarkably affectionate.

The bitterness that underlies a story so farcical on its surface is all there.

The farcical elements of the film are juxtaposed with moments of startling violence, but in the end laughter wins out.

William nevertheless proves that he is quite capable of handling such a farcical rôole.

Prokofiev's farcical parody of theatrical-operatic conventions is a good choice for an exercise like.

The farcical playing scenes involve one bizarre maneuver after another.

The play does possess an embryonic farcical situation.

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World English Dictionary

farcical (ˈfɑːsɪk^əl)

—*adj*
1.	ludicrous; absurd
2.	of or relating to farce

farci'cality

—n

'farcicalness

—n

'farcically

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

farcical

1716, from farce + -ical. Related: Farcically.

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"Where wit is a form of criticism or mockery, humor includes an element of self-criticism or self-mockery; where wit tends to proclaim imperfection, humor wryly acknowledges it; where wit undresses you, humor goes naked. At its best, humor simultaneously hurts and heals, makes one larger from a willingness to make oneself less. It has essentially much more breadth than wit, from being much more universal in appeal and human in effect. If harder to translate or explain, it often need not be explained or translated at all, revealing itself in a sudden gesture, a happy juxtaposition. We speak constantly of "the humor of the situation," almost never of the wit; just so, virtually everything that is farcical or funny derives from humor gone a bit wild."

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